GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs Radeon HD 7970 X2

GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
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 780 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 TiRadeon HD 7970 X2
GPU NameGK110B (GK110-425-B1)vsNew Zealand ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size561 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors7,080 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders2880vs2048
Compute Units15vs32
Core clock875 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs240vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 TiRadeon HD 7970 X2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780 TiRadeon HD 7970 X2
TDP250 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date7 Nov 2013vs31 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    52.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    59.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    210.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    236.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    528.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    5040.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    7578.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better