GeForce GTX 480 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 760, which has core clock speeds of 980 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 480		3650 points
	Difference: 2273 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 760 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 480 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 14848 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is much (more or less 124%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52080 (124%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 480 is a bit (approximately 7%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 760, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2240 (7%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a 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 called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.