GeForce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 8470 OEM

GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760
Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8470 OEM

135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 760 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 8470 OEM
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-225-A2)vsCaicos (Caicos XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs370 million
Shaders1152vs160
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock980 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs96vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 8470 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 8470 OEM
TDP170 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2013vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    3.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    6.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8470 OEM
    248.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better