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    GeForce GTX 760M vs Radeon HD 7970M

    GeForce GTX 760M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 30 May 2013
    GeForce GTX 760M
    Radeon HD 7970M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 24 Apr 2012
    Radeon HD 7970M

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760M

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970M

    HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970M

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 760MRadeon HD 7970M
    GPU NameGK106 (N14E-GL-A1)vsWimbledon (Wimbledon XT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size221 mm²vs212 mm²
    Transistors2,540 millionvs2,800 million
    Shaders768vs1280
    Compute Units4vs20
    Core clock628 MHzvs850 MHz
    ROPs16vs32
    TMUs64vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 760MRadeon HD 7970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1002 MHz
    4008 MHz effective    		vs1200 MHz
    4800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 760MRadeon HD 7970M
    TDP55 wattsvs100 watts
    Release Date30 May 2013vs24 Apr 2012

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 760M
      10.05 GP/s
    • Radeon HD 7970M
      27.20 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 760M
      40.20 GT/s
    • Radeon HD 7970M
      68.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 760M
      64.10 GB/s
    • Radeon HD 7970M
      153.60 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 760M
      964.60 GFLOPs
    • Radeon HD 7970M
      2176.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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