NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 and AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1020 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 4.5x lower typical power consumption: 55 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3704 vs 3583
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3704 vs 3583
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 February 2014 vs 8 January 2013
Core clock speed 1020 MHz vs 925 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 55 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704 vs 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3346 vs 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704 vs 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3346 vs 3339

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

  • 3.4x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 34.72 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 512
  • 3.4x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 1,111 gflops
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
  • 1100x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 5.0 GB/s
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s vs 34.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 512
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops vs 1,111 gflops
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 5.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3704
3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3346
3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3704
3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3346
3339
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 3347
PassMark - G2D Mark 507
Geekbench - OpenCL 9266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 34.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 639.427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.341
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 69.814
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4498
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3346 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4498
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3346 3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1049

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell GCN 1.0
Code name GM107 Tahiti
Launch date 18 February 2014 8 January 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $119
Place in performance rating 755 756
Price now $150.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 27.54

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1085 MHz
Core clock speed 1020 MHz 925 MHz
CUDA cores 512
Floating-point performance 1,111 gflops 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 95 °C
Pipelines 512 2048
Texture fill rate 34.72 GTexel / s 118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 55 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One mini... 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm) 274 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0
OpenGL 4.4 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 80 GB / s 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5.0 GB/s 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA