GeForce GTX 980 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this particular card. It features 1152 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

GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 7629 (129%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (54%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 should perform a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 31744 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be quite a bit (approximately 53%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 50048 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40704 (130%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.