GeForce GTX 970 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 760, which comes with core clock speeds of 980 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 970		10867 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 4944 (83%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (46%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970, in theory, should be a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 31744 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is just a bit (about 16%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15120 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be much (more or less 114%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 760, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35840 (114%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant 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 maximum fill rate.