Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6870, which features core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1120 SPUs as well as 56 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

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

The Geforce GTX 760 should in theory perform a lot faster 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 should be a lot (more or less 87%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6870. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon HD 6870, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.