Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7950

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7950, which comes with core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 7950		7731 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 1808 (31%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950		21 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7950 should perform quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 47744 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a little bit (approximately 5%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4480 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5760 (23%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at 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 can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.