GeForce GTX 980M vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 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

GeForce GTX 980M		9476 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 3553 (60%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980M		100 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (70%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 980M in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64256 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M should be a small bit (about 6%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5568 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M should be a lot (about 112%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 760, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35072 (112%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.