GeForce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7970

GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760
Radeon HD 7970
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 7970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 760
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    125%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 760
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    109%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970

9% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970

The Radeon HD 7970 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (8 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7970
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-225-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1152vs2048
Compute Units6vs32
Core clock980 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs96vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7970
TDP170 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2013vs22 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    118.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    264.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970
    3789.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600
  • Radeon HD 7970
    10760

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 760
    54
  • Radeon HD 7970
    67

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    64
  • Radeon HD 7970
    62

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    39
  • Radeon HD 7970
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    54
  • Radeon HD 7970
    60

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • GeForce GTX 760
    41
  • Radeon HD 7970
    43

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    41
  • Radeon HD 7970
    39

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    31
  • Radeon HD 7970
    39

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    46
  • Radeon HD 7970
    54

FPS (higher is better)