GeForce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7950

GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760
Radeon HD 7950
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 760
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    106%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 760
    107%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

7% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7950

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (7 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7950
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-225-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1152vs1792
Compute Units6vs28
Core clock980 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs96vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7950
TDP170 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2013vs31 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    89.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950
    2867.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600
  • Radeon HD 7950
    9130

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • GeForce GTX 760
    54
  • Radeon HD 7950
    62

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    39
  • Radeon HD 7950
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra, 4x MSAA, 16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 760
    24
  • Radeon HD 7950
    24

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    41
  • Radeon HD 7950
    36

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

  • GeForce GTX 760
    31
  • Radeon HD 7950
    35

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 760
    34
  • Radeon HD 7950
    34

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

  • GeForce GTX 760
    46
  • Radeon HD 7950
    49

FPS (higher is better)