Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GTX 750

Radeon HD 6970
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 750
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6970
    124%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 6970
    101%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750

195 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 750
GPU NameCayman (Cayman XT)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders1536vs512
Compute Units24vs4
Core clock880 MHzvs1020 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs96vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 750
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6970GeForce GTX 750
TDP250 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date14 Dec 2010vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6970
    28.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    16.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6970
    84.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6970
    176.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6970
    2703.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 750
    1044.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6970
    6000
  • GeForce GTX 750
    4830

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • Radeon HD 6970
    33
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    38
  • GeForce GTX 750
    41

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    23
  • GeForce GTX 750
    21

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    31
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • Radeon HD 6970
    24
  • GeForce GTX 750
    25

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 6970
    24
  • GeForce GTX 750
    22

FPS (higher is better)