GeForce GTX 980M vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 760, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this specific model. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units 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 980M		9476 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 3553 (60%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980M		100 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (70%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 760 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 980M overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64256 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M is a little bit (approximately 6%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5568 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980M is superior to the Geforce GTX 760, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35072 (112%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can 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 speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.