Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7970

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7970, which features core speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 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 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 be much faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (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 (more or less 26%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a little bit (approximately 6%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 7970, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.