Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7870

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7870, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1280 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon HD 7870 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a little bit (about 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 small bit (approximately 2%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 760, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.