Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 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 7870 XT		6390 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 467 (8%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870 XT		15 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon HD 7870 XT overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 256 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a bit (about 6%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7870 XT. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5280 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.