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Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 7970
Intro
The Geforce GTX 670 features core speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7970, which comes with a core clock frequency of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1375 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.
Benchmarks
These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
| Radeon HD 7970 |
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8225 points |
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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7351 points |
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Ethereum Mining Hash Rate
| Radeon HD 7970 |
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21 Mh/s |
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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13 Mh/s |
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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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170 Watts |
| Radeon HD 7970 |
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250 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically, the Radeon HD 7970 should be quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 670 overall. (explain)
| Radeon HD 7970 |
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264000 MB/sec |
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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192000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 7970 is just a bit (more or less 16%) faster with regards to AF than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)| Radeon HD 7970 |
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118400 Mtexels/sec |
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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102480 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The Radeon HD 7970 should be just a bit (about 1%) faster with regards to AA than the Geforce GTX 670, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)| Radeon HD 7970 |
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29600 Mpixels/sec |
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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29280 Mpixels/sec |
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Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.
Price Comparison
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Specifications
| Model | Geforce GTX 670 | Radeon HD 7970 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | May 2012 | January 2012 |
| Code Name | GK104 | Tahiti XT |
| Memory | 2048 MB | 3072 MB |
| Core Speed | 915 MHz | 925 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 6000 MHz | 5500 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 170 watts | 250 watts |
| Bandwidth | 192000 MB/sec | 264000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 102480 Mtexels/sec | 118400 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 29280 Mpixels/sec | 29600 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 1344 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 112 | 128 |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 3540 million | 4313 million |
| Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11.0 | DirectX 11.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.2 | OpenGL 4.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB GDDR5 is better than AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDR5, because it has a lower power consumption and it can be overclocked to the same performance as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB GDDR5.
I personally went with the GTX670 for this "round", for a few reasons... However, I have had a lot of experience with the 7970 as well, and here are some notes.
First, the two systems:
My rig's important specs are 3x EVGA GTX670 FTW 2GB models in 3-Way SLI running at 1384Mhz GPU/7450Mhz-Effective VRAM, a GT650Ti 2GB for PhysX/Folding, a Rampage 4 Extreme, i7 3930K @ 4.8Ghz, 16GB DDR3-2133 9-11-10-28 (4x4GB OC'd @ DDR3-2400 9-12-11-28), Samsung 830 256GB SSD (OS/Boot), Plextor M5P-Extreme 256GB SSD (Games), 2x WD VR 1TB RAID0, 1x WD RE 4TB, (had to move my RAID setup to a dedicated Home Media Server), X-Fi Titanium HD, all custom water cooled (CPU/GPU's/MB/RAM).
My friend's rig consists of 2x MSI R7970 Lightning GHz-Edition 3GB in CF-X (1250Mhz Core/6600Mhz-Effective VRAM), a 650Ti 1GB for PhysX, Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP7 Motherboard, i7 3770K @ 4.9Ghz, 16GB Samsung 30nm RAM DDR3-1600 11-11-11-30 1.35V (4x4GB OC'd @ DDR3-2600 11-13-11-31 1.585v), Samsung 840Pro 128GB (OS/Boot/Apps), 180GB Intel 330 SSD, LSI 9680-16i RAID Controller Card w 4GB Cache and BBU, 4x Seagate 7200.13 2TB HDD's RAID0, 6x Hitachi Ultrastar 500GB RAID0, 4x Seagate 3TB 7200rpm HDD RAID5+HS, and the CPU and GPU's are custom water-cooled (MB Block is on its way).
We have friendly benchmarking competitions all the time, but we also game a lot.
Occasionally, I will disable one of my 670FTW's so that we have "fair" 2vs2-card benchmarks (one reason that we both have dedicated PhysX cards, aside from BL2).
Despite his advantage in VRAM, we both end up with scores that are within 5% of one another, max, typically around 2%. This includes Heaven3.0, 3dMark11, etc. I do have a significant advantage in SuperPi/HyperPi/CineBench because of having 50% more CPU Cores/Threads, even if they are running 100Mhz slower and at a 5-10% IPC disadvantage.
When it comes to gaming, though, it's almost impossible to differentiate the two. Both of us can keep Far Cry 3 at >100fps at ALL times running everything on ULTRA at either 1080p or 1440p; Crysis and Crysis2 are >75fps with everything completely maxxed and with the DX11 Texture pack at the same resolutions, and even Metro2033 at 1440p with everything completely maxxed out will not drop below 50fps (Avg 78/88, Min 51/52, Max 131/178; mine scores a bit higher, but the minimum framerate is very similar... likely due to his VRAM advantage).
At the end of the day, we each paid EXACTLY the same amount of money for our cards, a whole $1.28 difference between the two GPU setups.
AND THEY BOTH ARE AWESOME!!!
(FWIW, I have used 3-way EVGA GTX680 4GB SLI, and it was all of 1.2-2.6% faster than my current setup, yet cost $500 more!)
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