GeForce GTX 760 OEM vs Radeon HD 7970

GeForce GTX 760 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760 OEM
Radeon HD 7970
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 7970
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

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

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760 OEM

120 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 25% higher average synthetic 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 760 OEMRadeon HD 7970
GPU NameGK104 ()vsTahiti (Tahiti XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1152vs2048
Compute Units6vs32
Core clock823 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs96vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 760 OEMRadeon HD 7970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 760 OEMRadeon HD 7970
TDP130 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date27 Jun 2013vs22 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    19.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    79.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    118.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    134.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    264.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    1896.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970
    3789.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 760 OEM
    8600
  • Radeon HD 7970
    10760

Points (higher is better)