Geforce GTX 760 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

The Geforce GTX 760 has a core clock frequency of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 770, which has a clock frequency of 1046 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1753 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1536 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card 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 number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.