NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 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 760

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 78% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 4.3x more texture fill rate: 94.1 billion / sec vs 22 GTexel / s
  • Around 44% higher pipelines: 1152 vs 800
  • 2.7x better floating-point performance: 2,378 gflops vs 880.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 3.4x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1776 MHz
  • 6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4793 vs 720
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 527 vs 416
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 June 2013 vs 9 January 2009
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 94.1 billion / sec vs 22 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1152 vs 800
Floating-point performance 2,378 gflops vs 880.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1776 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4793 vs 720
PassMark - G2D Mark 527 vs 416
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3350

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4793
720
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
527
416
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3350
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
PassMark - G3D Mark 4793 720
PassMark - G2D Mark 527 416
Geekbench - OpenCL 14258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 37.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 864.402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.09
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 40.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 84.186
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1663

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 M98
Launch date 25 June 2013 9 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $249
Place in performance rating 589 584
Price now $249.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 23.69

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1033 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 550 MHz
CUDA cores 1152
Floating-point performance 2,378 gflops 880.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 1152 800
Texture fill rate 94.1 billion / sec 22 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 956 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... No outputs
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 2.0 x16
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
Minimum recommended system power 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 56.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1776 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
PhysX
SLI
TXAA
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay