Graphics card overview

GeForce GTX 560

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 560

1024 Mb GDDR5 Released 17 May 2011 DESKTOP

Core configuration

GPU	GF114
Architecture	Nvidia_Fermi
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	336 : 56 : 32
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	1089.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size	1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width	256 bit
Memory Speed	1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	128.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 560 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 17 May 2011. The graphics card houses the GF114 die, based on the Nvidia_Fermi architecture which packs 1,950 million transistors on a 40 nm, 332 mm² die.

GeForce GTX 560 pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards

	GeForce GTX 560	GeForce GTX 750 Compare	Radeon R7 260X Compare	Radeon HD 7790 Compare	GeForce GTX 650 Ti Compare
Shader units	336	512	896	896	768
ROPs	32	16	16	16	16
Graphics processor	GF114	GM107	Bonaire	Bonaire	GK106
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective)	2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz 6500 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz 6000 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1350 MHz 5400 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit	128 bit
Memory bandwidth	128.00 Gb/s	80.20 Gb/s	104.00 Gb/s	96.00 Gb/s	86.40 Gb/s
Release date	17 May 2011	18 Feb 2014	8 Oct 2013	22 Mar 2013	9 Oct 2012