GeForce GTX 760 X2 vs Radeon HD 7970 X2

GeForce GTX 760 X2
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 760 X2
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Aug 2012
Radeon HD 7970 X2
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760 X2

250 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 X2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 X2

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 X2

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 X2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 760 X2Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-425-A2)vsNew Zealand ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1152vs2048
Compute Units6vs32
Core clock1006 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs96vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 760 X2Radeon HD 7970 X2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 760 X2Radeon HD 7970 X2
TDP250 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date19 Nov 2013vs31 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    48.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    59.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    193.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    236.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    384.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    528.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 760 X2
    4636.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    7578.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better