GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon HD 7970

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7970, which features core clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units 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 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon HD 7970		8225 points
	Difference: 11583 (141%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon HD 7970		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7970 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		264000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 1856 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is quite a bit (about 106%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7970. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7970		118400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 125864 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is quite a bit (about 247%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7970, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7970		29600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73248 (247%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels 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 number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.