NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 760 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1032MHz
Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 760
2.378 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970
+59%
3.789 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 760
1660
Radeon HD 7970
+39%
2310
Graphics Card
Jun 2013
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 700
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
980 MHz
Base Clock
-
1032 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1152
Shading Units
2048
96
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.77 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
99.07 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.378 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
99.07 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104-225-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
