GeForce GTX 770 vs Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 770
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 May 2013
GeForce GTX 770
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 770
    134%
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 770
    151%
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 770

51% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7870 GHz Edition

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 770 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 770

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 770

The GeForce GTX 770 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 770Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-425-A2)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1536vs1280
Compute Units8vs20
Core clock1046 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 770Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 770Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
TDP230 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date30 May 2013vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 770
    33.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 770
    134.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 770
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 770
    3213.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 770
    11180
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    8290

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    67
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    50

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    81
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    44

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    49
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    30

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    61
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    49

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    64
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    43

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    50
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    32

FPS (higher is better)