GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7870 vs 770

Gaming

Real world tests using the latest 3D games

crysis: warhead (2013), battlefield 3 (2013) 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

Civilization 5 Texture Decomposition (2013), Passmark Direct Compute and 1 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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Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 

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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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Better CLBenchmark raytrace score 200,951 vs 164,636 More than 20% better CLBenchmark raytrace score
Lower TDP 175W vs 230W Around 25% lower TDP
Front view of GeForce GTX 770

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Better 3DMark vantage graphics score 36,150 vs 23,592 Around 55% better 3DMark vantage graphics score
Better passmark score 6,172 vs 4,262 Around 45% better passmark score
Significantly higher effective memory clock speed 7,012 MHz vs 4,800 MHz More than 45% higher effective memory clock speed
Better 3DMark vantage texture fill score 109.5 vs 72.1 More than 50% better 3DMark vantage texture fill score
Better 3DMark 11 graphics score 11,310 vs 6,194 Around 85% better 3DMark 11 graphics score
Better 3DMark06 score 29,690 vs 23,230 Around 30% better 3DMark06 score
Higher memory bandwidth 224 GB/s vs 153.6 GB/s More than 45% higher memory bandwidth
Higher clock speed 1,046 MHz vs 1,000 MHz Around 5% higher clock speed
Higher texture rate 134 GTexel/s vs 80 GTexel/s Around 70% higher texture rate
More energy-efficient load power consumption 246W vs 295W More than 15% more energy-efficient load power consumption
Better floating-point performance 3,213 GFLOPS vs 2,560 GFLOPS More than 25% better floating-point performance
Significantly higher memory clock speed 1,753 MHz vs 1,200 MHz More than 45% higher memory clock speed
Significantly better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score 395 vs 296.7 Around 35% better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score
Significantly higher far cry 3 framerate 50.4 fps vs 29.7 fps Around 70% higher far cry 3 framerate
Significantly higher battlefield 3 framerate 126.2 fps vs 78.8 fps More than 60% higher battlefield 3 framerate
More texture mapping units 128 vs 80 48 more texture mapping units
Quieter idle noise level 38.2 dB vs 39.5 dB Around 5% quieter idle noise level
Quieter load noise level 46.7 dB vs 48.8 dB Around 5% quieter load noise level
Higher crysis: warhead framerate 57 fps vs 44.2 fps Around 30% higher crysis: warhead framerate
Better passmark direct compute score 3,038 vs 2,270 Around 35% better passmark direct compute score

Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 770

Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance

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.
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)

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

Since Crysis 2 is a multi-platform game with major development focus on the console, the graphics on launch day were only DirectX 9.
Radeon HD 7870 | by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)

Far Cry 3 1920 x 1080 - Ultra Quality + 4x MSAA + Enh. AtoC

Radeon HD 7870
29.7 fps
GeForce GTX 770
50.4 fps
The game is a typical linear first-person shooter, but offers a talent tree, fast paced action and one-on-one duels with special game mechanics.
GeForce GTX 770 | by techPowerUp!

Passmark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute

Reviews Word on the street

Radeon HD 7870  vs GeForce GTX 770 

8.9
9.6
The GTX 770 WindForce OC is no different, but the improvement over the reference design cooler is, nevertheless, not that big because NVIDIA's cooler is already quite good.
GeForce GTX 770

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Nvidia is just better than ati. I've owned probably 10 ati cards. Bought one nvidia card and never going back. Not to mention AMD/ati tactics on the r9 290 lauch were extremely shady. They were shut up promptly by nvidia price drops and the 780ti
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