GeForce GTX 980 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 760, which features clock speeds of 980 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 980		13552 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 7629 (129%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (54%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 should perform a little bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 31744 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 should be a lot (more or less 53%) more effective at AF than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 50048 (53%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is a lot (about 130%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Geforce GTX 760, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40704 (130%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.