AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OEM Rebrand

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GK104
GPU variant Tahiti XT (215-0821060) GK104-200-KD-A2
Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 3,540 million
Die size 352 mm² 294 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 22nd, 2011 Aug 25th, 2013
Generation Southern Islands GeForce 700
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 549 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 191 in our database
gpu.details.availability Jan 9th, 2012
Predecessor Northern Islands GeForce 600
Successor Sea Islands GeForce 900

Clocks

GPU clock 925 MHz
Memory clock 1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective 1400 MHz 5.6 Gbps effective
Base clock 823 MHz
Boost clock 888 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 3 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 264.0 GB/s 179.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 1152
TMUs 128 96
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 768 KB 512 KB
SMX count 6

Performance

Pixel rate 29.60 GPixel/s 21.31 GPixel/s
Texture rate 118.4 GTexel/s 85.25 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.789 TFLOPS 2.046 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 947.2 GFLOPS (1:4) 85.25 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP 250 W 130 W
Suggested PSU 600 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number C386-37 P2004

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 3.0

Other Features

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