GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 560 and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, 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 stacks up against Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, check out specs charts below.

Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 560 Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 12-45 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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  • GeForce GTX 560 has 1150% more power consumption, than Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge.
  • GeForce GTX 560 is used in Desktops, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 560 is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • GeForce GTX 560 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 14−16 3−4
ultra / 1080p 8−9 1−2
QHD / 1440p 3−4 0−1
low / 720p 27−30 14−16
medium / 1080p 16−18 5−6
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 560 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 183% more, than Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 560 Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Architecture Fermi 2.0 GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name GF114 Bristol Ridge
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 17 May 2011 1 June 2016
Pipelines 336 384
Core clock speed 810 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 1,950 million 3100 Million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 45.36
Floating-point performance 1,088.6 gflops
Length 8.25" (21 cm)
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.1
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA +
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options +
Multi monitor support +
HDMI +
HDCP +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
3D Blu-Ray +
3D Gaming +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 80 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized
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