Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7870

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7870, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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 7870		6230 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 307 (5%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870		16 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (23%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 7870		175 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 will be 25% quicker than the Radeon HD 7870 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 38656 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 should be a small bit (approximately 18%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7870. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14080 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 is a bit (more or less 2%) more effective at AA than the Geforce GTX 760, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		32000 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 640 (2%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.