AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GF114
GPU variant Tahiti PRO (215-0821056) GF114-325-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 1,950 million
Die size 352 mm² 332 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 8th, 2013 May 17th, 2011
Generation Sea Islands GeForce 500
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor Southern Islands GeForce 400
Successor Volcanic Islands GeForce 600
Launch price 199 USD
Reviews 48 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz
Boost clock 925 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective
GPU clock 810 MHz
Shader clock 1620 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 128.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1792 336
TMUs 112 56
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 28
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 768 KB 512 KB
SM count 7

Performance

Pixel rate 29.60 GPixel/s 11.34 GPixel/s
Texture rate 103.6 GTexel/s 45.36 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.315 TFLOPS 1,089 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 828.8 GFLOPS (1:4) 90.72 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 210 mm 8.3 inches
TDP 200 W 150 W
Suggested PSU 550 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Board number C386-42 P1040 SKU 51

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

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