GeForce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Summary

Synthetic performance index

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

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 760
    105%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

5% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Boost

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

The GeForce GTX 760 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (5 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-225-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1152vs1792
Compute Units6vs28
Core clock980 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs96vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon HD 7950 Boost
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 Boost
TDP170 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2013vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    95.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    3046.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    9130

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    64
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    53

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    39
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    34

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 760
    52
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    61

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    54
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    53

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • GeForce GTX 760
    41
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    39

FPS (higher is better)