Radeon HD 7970 vs GeForce GTX 760 OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated378
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data2.38
Power efficiencyno data3.79
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Tahiti
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date6 November 2016 (8 years ago)22 December 2011 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$549

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores13442048
Core clock speed993 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1046 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate117.2118.4
Floating-point processing power2.812 TFLOPS3.789 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs112128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 2.1 x16
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm274 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1650 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s264 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity-+
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire-+
FreeSync-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)DirectX® 11
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1-
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 November 2016 22 December 2011
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 300 Watt

GTX 760 OEM has an age advantage of 4 years, and 76.5% lower power consumption.

HD 7970, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 760 OEM and Radeon HD 7970. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM
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