Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which has core clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 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

Radeon HD 7870 XT		6390 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 467 (8%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870 XT		15 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 should be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7870 XT in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 256 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a bit (more or less 6%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7870 XT. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5280 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a small bit (about 6%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7870 XT, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.