GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

GeForce GTX 750
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2012
Radeon HD 7870 XT

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 750
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    177%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 750
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    135%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7870 XT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 XT

35% higher gaming performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7870 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7870 XT

The Radeon HD 7870 XT is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (4 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 750Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU NameGM107 (GM107-300-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti LE)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders512vs1536
Compute Units4vs24
Core clock1020 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 750Radeon HD 7870 XT
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 750Radeon HD 7870 XT
TDP55 wattsvs185 watts
Release Date18 Feb 2014vs19 Nov 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 750
    16.32 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 750
    32.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    88.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 750
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 750
    1044.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    2842.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 750
    4830
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    8590

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 750
    41
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    49

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 750
    21
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    31

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 750
    33
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    54

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 750
    32
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    36

FPS (higher is better)