Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6870, which features a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1050 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1120 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, 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

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
Radeon HD 6870		2870 points
	Difference: 3053 (106%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6870		151 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 19 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon HD 6870 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6870		134400 MB/sec
	Difference: 57856 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is quite a bit (about 87%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6870. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6870		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43680 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6870		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2560 (9%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of 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 Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many 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.