GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon RX 560

Place in the ranking	467	510
Place by popularity	90	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.48	1.70
Power efficiency	8.65	2.69
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Polaris 21	GF110
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	18 April 2017 (7 years ago)	29 November 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$99	$289

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 560 Ti 448 has 15% better value for money than RX 560.

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 cores	1024	448
Core clock speed	1175 MHz	732 MHz
Boost clock speed	1275 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	3,000 million	3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	210 Watt
Texture fill rate	81.60	40.99
Floating-point processing power	2.611 TFLOPS	1.312 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	40
TMUs	64	56

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1280 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	950 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	152.0 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	-	2.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD

35
+16.7%

30−35

−16.7%

Cost per frame, $

1080p

2.83

9.63

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.47	8.23
Recency	18 April 2017	29 November 2011
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1280 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	210 Watt

RX 560 has a 15.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 220% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 180% lower power consumption.

The Radeon RX 560 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.