NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 560M sales 30 May 2011. This is a Fermi 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with Up to 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of Up to 60 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 560M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	745
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.00	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF116
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	30 May 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 560M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 560M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	775 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	1,170 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	24.80	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.5952 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	24	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	32	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 560M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
SLI options	2-way

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 560M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	Up to 192 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	Up to 60 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 560M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 560M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray	+
3D Gaming	+
Optimus	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 560M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 API
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 560M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 560M 3.28

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 560M 1262

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GTX 560M 1820

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GTX 560M 9300

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GTX 560M 1380

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GTX 560M 4919

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

GTX 560M 15

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 560M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	31
Full HD	38

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	6−7
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	9−10
Forza Horizon 4	18−20
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27
Metro Exodus	5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	6−7
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	9−10
Forza Horizon 4	18−20
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27
Metro Exodus	5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	18−20
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

8−9

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	4−5
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion	20−22

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

7−8

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	1−2
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2
Far Cry 5	1−2
Forza Horizon 4	1−2
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 560M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

GeForce 930MX 101.52

GeForce 930A 100.3

GeForce GTX 260M SLI 100.3

GeForce GTX 560M 100

Iris Graphics 540 99.7

GeForce GT 745A 97.87

GeForce GTX 760A 96.95

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 560M is Radeon R7 M275DX, which is faster by 2% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.