GeForce GTX 560 OEM vs Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking969not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.99no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCarrizoGF110
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)29 November 2011 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384384
Core clock speedno data552 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.29
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8479 TFLOPS
ROPsno data40
TMUsno data44

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data1280 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speedno data802 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.3 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 29 November 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 150 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 3 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and GeForce GTX 560 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R6 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 560 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM
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