Geforce GTX 760 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

The Geforce GTX 760 features a clock frequency of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1502 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 770, which comes with a clock speed of 1046 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1753 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Specifications

Model	Geforce GTX 760	Geforce GTX 770
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	June 2013	May 2013
Code Name	GK104	GK104
Fab Process	28 nm	28 nm
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Memory	2048 MB	2048 MB
Core Speed	980 MHz	1046 MHz
Shader Speed	980 MHz	1046 MHz
Memory Speed	1502 MHz (6008 MHz effective)	1753 MHz (7012 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	1152	1536
Texture Mapping Units	96	128
Render Output Units	32	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11.0	DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.3	OpenGL 4.3
Power (Max TDP)	170 watts	230 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	192256 MB/sec	224384 MB/sec
Texel Rate	94080 Mtexels/sec	133888 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	31360 Mpixels/sec	33472 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.