GeForce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7970
Summary
GeForce GTX 760
100%
Radeon HD 7970
125%
Relative performance
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 760 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
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GPU Name | GK104 (GK104-225-A2) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 1152 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 6 | vs | 32 |
Core clock | 980 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 96 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 760 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 760 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
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TDP | 170 watts | vs | 250 watts |
Release Date | 25 Jun 2013 | vs | 22 Dec 2011 |
GeForce GTX 760
23.50 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 760
94.10 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970
118.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 760
192.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970
264.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 760
2258.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970
3789.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 760
8600
Radeon HD 7970
10760
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
GeForce GTX 760
54
Radeon HD 7970
67
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA
GeForce GTX 760
64
Radeon HD 7970
62
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
GeForce GTX 760
39
Radeon HD 7970
40
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
GeForce GTX 760
54
Radeon HD 7970
60
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
GeForce GTX 760
41
Radeon HD 7970
43
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
GeForce GTX 760
41
Radeon HD 7970
39
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
GeForce GTX 760
31
Radeon HD 7970
39
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
GeForce GTX 760
46
Radeon HD 7970
54
FPS (higher is better)