GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon HD 7970

GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780
Radeon HD 7970
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 7970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 780
    127%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 780
    138%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780

38% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780

The GeForce GTX 780 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (8 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 780Radeon HD 7970
GPU NameGK110 (GK110-300-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size561 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors7,080 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders2304vs2048
Compute Units12vs32
Core clock863 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs192vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780Radeon HD 7970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780Radeon HD 7970
TDP250 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date23 May 2013vs22 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    118.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    264.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970
    3789.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 780
    13770
  • Radeon HD 7970
    10760

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • GeForce GTX 780
    79
  • Radeon HD 7970
    67

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 780
    93
  • Radeon HD 7970
    62

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 780
    55
  • Radeon HD 7970
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 780
    80
  • Radeon HD 7970
    60

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • GeForce GTX 780
    58
  • Radeon HD 7970
    43

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 780
    73
  • Radeon HD 7970
    39

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

  • GeForce GTX 780
    47
  • Radeon HD 7970
    39

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

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

  • GeForce GTX 780
    68
  • Radeon HD 7970
    54

FPS (higher is better)