GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs 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

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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7870 XT will be 122% faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in general, because of 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 is a lot (more or less 118%) better at AF 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 a better choice, by far. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.