Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7970

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7970, which has core speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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 7970		8225 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 2302 (39%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7970		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 7970		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7970 should perform quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		264000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 71744 (37%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7970 will be much (approximately 26%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		118400 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24320 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7970		29600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1760 (6%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.