Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6970, which comes with a core clock speed of 880 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1375 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
Radeon HD 6970		3470 points
	Difference: 2453 (71%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon HD 6970		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 will be 9% quicker than the Radeon HD 6970 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16256 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 should be a bit (approximately 11%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6970. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a little bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 6970, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (11%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.