NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 and AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 94.1 billion / sec vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 170 Watt vs 200 Watt
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Launch date	25 June 2013 vs 7 March 2013
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	94.1 billion / sec vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	170 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Around 56% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1152
Around 21% better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 2,378 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
Around 81% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 67.802 vs 37.505
Around 42% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1230.769 vs 864.402
2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 81.68 vs 40.457
4.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 370.179 vs 84.186

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1792 vs 1152
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 2,378 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.802 vs 37.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1230.769 vs 864.402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.68 vs 40.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	370.179 vs 84.186

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

37.505

67.802

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

864.402

1230.769

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

40.457

81.68

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

84.186

370.179

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	4798
PassMark - G2D Mark	529
Geekbench - OpenCL	14290
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	37.505	67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	864.402	1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.09
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	40.457	81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	84.186	370.179
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1660

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK104	Tahiti
Launch date	25 June 2013	7 March 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$249	$449
Place in performance rating	598	599
Price now	$249.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	23.69
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1033 MHz
Core clock speed	980 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	1152
Floating-point performance	2,378 gflops	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C
Pipelines	1152	1792
Texture fill rate	94.1 billion / sec	89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	170 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	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	9.5" (24.1 cm)	279 mm
Minimum recommended system power	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	Two 6-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.3	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.2 GB / s	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
PhysX
SLI
TXAA