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MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPUBoss recommends the MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released December, 2010
MSI Radeon HD 6870
- 930 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6.4 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Oct, 2010)On the other hand, if you can spend the money and are afraid of doing overclocking yourself this offers an added value over the reference design.
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Released March, 2011
MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- 950 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6.3 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Jan, 2011)I like the big "900 MHz Overclocked" on the front, which quickly lets you identify the card as an overclocked SKU.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 6870 vs 560 Ti among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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| Much better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 23,860 | vs | 4,013 | Around 6x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Higher pixel rate | 29.76 GPixel/s | vs | 15.2 GPixel/s | More than 95% higher pixel rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,083 GFLOPS | vs | 1,459.2 GFLOPS | Around 45% better floating-point performance | |||
| More shading units | 1,120 | vs | 384 | 736 more shading units | |||
| Lower TDP | 151W | vs | 170W | More than 10% lower TDP | |||
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 16,518 | vs | 4,218 | Around 4x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Better PassMark score | 3,538 | vs | 2,594 | More than 35% better PassMark score | |||
| Higher battlefield 3 framerate | 52.5 | vs | 45 | More than 15% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 2.34 frames/s | vs | 1.35 frames/s | Around 75% better T-Rex score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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