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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1002 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6870, which comes with core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1120 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 3466 points
Radeon HD 6870 2870 points
Difference: 596 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6870 151 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 19 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6870 should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 134400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 6144 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be a bit (approximately 4%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6870. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2208 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6870 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2496 (9%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 560 Ti Radeon HD 6870
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2011 October 2010
Code Name GF114 Barts XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 1120
Texture Mapping Units 64 56
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1950 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Comments

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Sid says:

Stats can be tricky,as you can see in the benchmarks.These cards are of the same generation,they were built to compete with each other.Nvidia wins,for now.

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Bruder95 says:

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Albert says:

Which one is better for a good price, the HD 6870 or the GTX 560 ti? i have a budget of 200 €

erik says:

Pls use a pci-e 2.1 motherboard and use better game like dirt 3, are u a pro nvidia or what ? i want to see real game min,avg,max,fps!!!!!!!!!

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erlin says:

tengo una intel i5 8 gigas de ram ddr 3 un disco de 500 que tarjeta grafica le devo poner por favor que alguien me ayude mañana pienso comprarla asi kl me pueden ayudar cual es mejor la ati 6870 hd o la gtx 560

Bitch Please says:

Omfg, 560 ti compete with 6950 u dumbnuts....

Diyer says:

The gtx 560 is by much better that the amd 6870..

1U Rackmount LCD says:

GTX560ti is newer and better than R6870. GeForce GTX 560 Ti, although more expensive is a faster graphics card. So go with the 560 ti if you're either going to play a lot of BF3, or want to future proof. Go with 6870 if neither of the above applies, or you just want to save money.
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Ddraig says:

uhm.. the GTX 560 TI is a lot more expensive than the 6870, its newer, and its also an upgraded version of the 560, so compare the 6870 and the 560 and the 6870 will win

SmileMan says:

hd6870 is better then the gtx560ti, they only need their drivers updated like nvidea...

(I got a single hd6870 in my system, runs bf3 on high settings and skyrim on ultra very nice... only with my 1920x1200 I need to set skyrim to high, and the fps drops sometimes then. I'm waiting on the new drivers!)

Junaid Farooq says:

LOl!!! GTX 569ti is better than 6870 as nvidia always f**k ATI

Junaid Farooq says:

I mean to say 560ti* is better than 6870

hardbass says:

6870 best very fast

Emelia says:

i have bought SSDs and hard drives from ejobber limited at 10% discount

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