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Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

The Geforce GTX 760 has a clock frequency of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6870, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1050 MHz on this particular model. It features 1120 SPUs along with 56 TAUs 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 760 5923 points
Radeon HD 6870 2870 points
Difference: 3053 (106%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6870 151 Watts
Geforce GTX 760 170 Watts
Difference: 19 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon HD 6870 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760 192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6870 134400 MB/sec
Difference: 57856 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be much (more or less 87%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6870. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760 94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 43680 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760 31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6870 28800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2560 (9%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 760 Radeon HD 6870
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2013 October 2010
Code Name GK104 Barts XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 980 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 192256 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 94080 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 31360 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1152 1120
Texture Mapping Units 96 56
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3540 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high 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 higher this number, the better the 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 760

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