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AMD Radeon HD 7870
GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon HD 7870 based on its compute performance.
See full details Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 760 |
Released March, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870
- 1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.6 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Dec, 2012)Looking at performance-per-watt in games, the HD 7870 jokerCard is the least power-efficient card from AMD.
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Released June, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
- 980 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.5 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!Palit has overclocked both GPU and memory on their GTX 760 JetStream out of the box, which provides a nice 6% performance improvement over the reference design.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7870 vs 760
Gaming | |
Real world tests using the latest 3D games | |
| crysis: warhead (2013), battlefield 3 (2013), Civilization 5 and Far Cry 3 | |
Benchmarks | |
Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
| Passmark, 3DMark Vantage Texture Fill, 3DMark 11 Graphics and 2 more | |
Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
| SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4, Civilization 5 Texture Decomposition (2013) and 2 more | |
Noise and Power | |
How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
| TDP, Idle Noise Level, Load Noise Level, Idle Power Consumption and 1 more | |
GPUBoss Score | |
Gaming, Benchmarks, Compute Performance and Noise and Power | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4 score | 16,500 | vs | 228 | More than 72.2x better SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4 score | |||
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| More energy-efficient load power consumption | 295W | vs | 336W | More than 10% more energy-efficient load power consumption | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 32 GPixel/s | vs | 23.5 GPixel/s | More than 35% higher pixel rate | |||
| Quieter idle noise level | 39.5 dB | vs | 41 dB | Around 5% quieter idle noise level | |||
| Better CLBenchmark raytrace score | 200,951 | vs | 130,616 | Around 55% better CLBenchmark raytrace score | |||
| Slightly quieter load noise level | 48.8 dB | vs | 50 dB | Almost the same | |||
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| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 30,030 | vs | 23,592 | More than 25% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,008 MHz | vs | 4,800 MHz | More than 25% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Better passmark score | 4,985 | vs | 4,262 | More than 15% better passmark score | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 8,730 | vs | 6,194 | More than 40% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 192.3 GB/s | vs | 153.6 GB/s | More than 25% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate | 58.7 fps | vs | 25.8 fps | More than 2.2x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,502 MHz | vs | 1,200 MHz | More than 25% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher far cry 3 framerate | 41.5 fps | vs | 29.7 fps | Around 40% higher far cry 3 framerate | |||
| Higher battlefield 3 framerate | 103.4 fps | vs | 78.8 fps | More than 30% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | 333.8 | vs | 296.7 | Around 15% better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | |||
| Slightly higher crysis: warhead framerate | 49.8 fps | vs | 44.2 fps | Around 15% higher crysis: warhead framerate | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 760
Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)3DMark 11, as the name might probably suggest, makes use of the Microsoft DirectX 11 API and puts every feature of it to use, creating astonishingly realistic visuals.
3DMark Vantage (Texture Fill) Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX performance
3DMark 11 Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 11 GPU performance
Crysis: Warhead (2013) 1920x1080 - Enthusiast Quality + 4xAA
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Since Crysis 2 is a multi-platform game with major development focus on the console, the graphics on launch day were only DirectX 9.
Far Cry 3 1920 x 1080 - Ultra Quality + 4x MSAA + Enh. AtoC
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)A few months after the launch, the game was transformed into a Play4Free branded game.
Crysis 3 1920 x 1080 - Very High preset + 16xAF + 2xSMAA
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)We chose Crysis 2 as a standard test representing typical 3D gaming usage, because it offers the following: very high power draw; high repeatability; is a current game that is supported on all cards because of its DirectX 9 roots; drivers are actively tested and optimized for it; supports all multi-GPU configurations; test runs in a relatively short time and renders a non-static scene with variable complexity.
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