GeForce GTX 770 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 770
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 May 2013
GeForce GTX 770
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 770
    103%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 770
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    104%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 770

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 (14 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 770Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-425-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1536vs2048
Compute Units8vs32
Core clock1046 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 770Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 770Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
TDP230 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date30 May 2013vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 770
    33.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 770
    134.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    128.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 770
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 770
    3213.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    4096.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 770
    11180
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    10830

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    67
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    71

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    81
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    68

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    49
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    44

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    61
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    71

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    64
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    65

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    50
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    47

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 770
    40
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    58
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    64

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    29
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 770
    30
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    52
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    45

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

  • GeForce GTX 770
    41
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    46

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    23
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    26

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 770
    13
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    16

FPS (higher is better)