GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7870 vs 760 among GPUs between $200 and $400

Gaming

Radeon HD 7870
6.4
GeForce GTX 760
6.7
GeForce GTX 970
8.6
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

Graphics

Radeon HD 7870
8.1
GeForce GTX 760
n.d.
GeForce GTX 970
8.5
T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor

Computing

Radeon HD 7870
6.8
GeForce GTX 760
n.d.
GeForce GTX 970
7.9
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

Performance per Watt

Radeon HD 7870
6.0
GeForce GTX 760
5.7
GeForce GTX 970
8.1
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more

Value

Radeon HD 7870
6.4
GeForce GTX 760
6.7
GeForce GTX 970
8.7
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more

Noise and Power

Radeon HD 7870
7.6
GeForce GTX 760
7.3
GeForce GTX 970
7.7
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more
6.7

Overall Score

Radeon HD 7870
6.7
GeForce GTX 760
6.3
GeForce GTX 970
8.6

Winner
AMD Radeon HD 7870 

GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon HD 7870  based on its benchmarks.

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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of Radeon HD 7870

Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon HD 7870

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Much better 3DMark06 score 23,230 vs 7,962 Around 3x better 3DMark06 score
Slightly higher pixel rate 32 GPixel/s vs 23.52 GPixel/s More than 35% higher pixel rate
Front view of GeForce GTX 760

Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GTX 760

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Better 3DMark vantage graphics score 30,123 vs 23,592 Around 30% 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
Higher memory bandwidth 192.3 GB/s vs 153.6 GB/s More than 25% higher memory bandwidth
Much 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
Slightly more texture mapping units 96 vs 80 16 more texture mapping units

Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 760

3DMark Vantage Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 10 GPU performance

Radeon HD 7870
23,592
GeForce GTX 760
30,123

3DMark06 Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 9 GPU performance

Radeon HD 7870
23,230
GeForce GTX 760
7,962

Civilization 5 1680x1050 - Maximum quality + 4xMSAA

Radeon HD 7870
80.3 fps
GeForce GTX 760
84.5 fps

Battlefield 4

Radeon HD 7870
43
GeForce GTX 760
49.3

Crysis 3

Radeon HD 7870
25.8
GeForce GTX 760
33.3

Crysis 3 1920 x 1080 - Very High preset + 16xAF + 2xSMAA

Radeon HD 7870
25.8 fps
GeForce GTX 760
58.7 fps

SmallLux GPU 2.0d4 Measures compute performance using OpenCL to do 3D rendering

Radeon HD 7870
16,500
GeForce GTX 760
228

Reviews Word on the street

Radeon HD 7870  vs GeForce GTX 760 
8.8
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9.0
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Gaming power consumption is roughly similar to the reference design, which is impressive because Palit's card comes with much higher clock speeds on both GPU and memory.
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Comments

Showing 9 comments.
kronz (05:13 PM, December 28, 2014)
compute performance and power is reffering too
FORK (10:23 AM, December 23, 2014)
YES YES YES YES YES
Blastergamer (08:33 AM, March 30, 2014)
they are maybe referring to price/performance.
milad (06:30 PM, March 25, 2014)
NO NO NO NO NO.......................
YaDoDz (08:58 PM, February 22, 2014)
This one doesn't make much sense.
EdWeird_STP (12:46 AM, February 20, 2014)
The rating is based on the GPUBoss scores alone, which are in the black box at the top. They rate on really specific things, that Passmark, and 3DMark don't seem to reward. Seems odd, but the first box at the top for the Gaming - makes me wonder if the real-world performance is better on the 7870. I have an R7870 Twin Frozr edition now, and it kicks butt, but I want a Nvidia card so I can play around with Gsync soon.
zeppast (10:51 AM, January 15, 2014)
Sure looks that way...
Anthony Cararini (02:44 AM, January 1, 2014)
@Zeppast i think its glitched
Zeppast (08:26 AM, December 24, 2013)
Still scratching my head on this one, how does an HD 7870 beat a GTX 760? when 99% of the benchmarks show the 760 ahead.
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