GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which has GPU clock speed of 925 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation 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

Radeon HD 7870 XT		6390 points
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		4562 points
	Difference: 1828 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		60 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (208%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7870 XT will be 122% quicker than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 105600 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT should be a lot (about 118%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48000 (118%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7870 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		29600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13280 (81%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.