GeForce GTX 870M vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all 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 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 760		5923 points
GeForce GTX 870M		4770 points
	Difference: 1153 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 870M		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 870M overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96256 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 870M should be a bit (approximately 12%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

GeForce GTX 870M		105392 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11312 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the GeForce GTX 870M, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		22584 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8776 (39%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.