GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 Ti |
| 33% higher gaming performance. |
| 50 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 Ti
The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (14 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 Ti | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK110B (GK110-425-B1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT2) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 561 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,080 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 2880 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 15 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 875 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 240 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 Ti | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 780 Ti | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 300 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Nov 2013 | vs | 22 Jun 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA
FPS (higher is better)