Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7970

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7970, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 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 7970		8225 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 2302 (39%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7970		21 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 7970		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7970 should be quite a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		264000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 71744 (37%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7970 will be much (approximately 26%) better at AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		118400 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24320 (26%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is just a bit (approximately 6%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7970, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7970		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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.