GeForce GTX 560 SE vs Radeon HD 6990

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 560 SE and Radeon HD 6990, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce GTX 560 SE stacks up against Radeon HD 6990, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 560 SE Radeon HD 6990
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 375 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6990 has 150% more power consumption, than GeForce GTX 560 SE.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon HD 6990 has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce GTX 560 SE.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • GeForce GTX 560 SE is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6990 - with TeraScale 3.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 94 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 560 SE.
  • GeForce GTX 560 SE and Radeon HD 6990 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is 85 mm longer, than GeForce GTX 560 SE.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 1172 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 560 SE.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 14−16
ultra / 1080p 5−6 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 21−24 30−35
medium / 1080p 10−12 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6990 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 58% more, than GeForce GTX 560 SE.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 560 SE Radeon HD 6990
Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale 3
Code name GF114 Antilles
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 20 February 2012 8 March 2011
Pipelines 288 1536
Core clock speed 736 MHz 830 MHz
Transistor count 1,950 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 35.33 79.68
Floating-point performance 847.9 gflops 2x 2,549.8 gflops
Length 210 mm 295 mm
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3828 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 91.87 GB/s 160.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.1
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