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Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Intro
The Geforce GTX 760 uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1502 MHz on this particular model. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, which has core speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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150 Watts |
| Geforce GTX 760 |
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170 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 will be 67% quicker than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)
| Geforce GTX 760 |
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192256 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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115200 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Geforce GTX 760 should be a lot (approximately 214%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB. (explain)| Geforce GTX 760 |
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94080 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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30000 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, by a large margin. (explain)| Geforce GTX 760 |
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31360 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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12000 Mpixels/sec |
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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
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Specifications
| Model | Geforce GTX 760 | Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | June 2013 | Jun 25, 2008 |
| Code Name | GK104 | RV770 XT |
| Memory | 2048 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 980 MHz | 750 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 6008 MHz | 3600 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 170 watts | 150 watts |
| Bandwidth | 192256 MB/sec | 115200 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 94080 Mtexels/sec | 30000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 31360 Mpixels/sec | 12000 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 1152 | 800(160x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 96 | 40 |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 16 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 55 nm |
| Transistors | 3540 million | 956 million |
| Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11.0 | DirectX 10.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.3 | OpenGL 3.0 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 per second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of 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.
Geforce GTX 760Amazon.com
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Radeon HD 4870 1GBAmazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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Comments
2 Responses to “Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB”I just upgraded from hd4870 1GB to a GTX 760 OC and BF3 almost doubles in FPS, a bit disappointing.
I would have expected it to make a larger difference.
BF3 Settings: textures HIGH, everything else low and no AA.
1920*1200 @60hz
hd4870 1gb: average 45 FPS
GTX 760 OC 2gb: average 75 FPS
Hmmm,
check your bf3 setting i think has upped setting automatcly by 760 gtx