Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GTX 750
AMD
Radeon HD 6970
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 14 Dec 2010
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 750
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 18 Feb 2014
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon HD 6970124%
- GeForce GTX 750100%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- Radeon HD 6970101%
- GeForce GTX 750100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 6970
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 750
- 195 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | GeForce GTX 750 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cayman (Cayman XT) | GM107 (GM107-300-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 389 mm² | 148 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,640 million | 1,870 million |
| Shaders | 1536 | 512 |
| Compute Units | 24 | 4 |
| Core clock | 880 MHz | 1020 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| TMUs | 96 | 32 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 6970 | GeForce GTX 750 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6970 | GeForce GTX 750 |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | 55 watts |
| Release Date | 14 Dec 2010 | 18 Feb 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 697028.20 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 75016.32 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 697084.50 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 75032.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 6970176.00 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 75080.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 69702703.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 7501044.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon HD 69706000
- GeForce GTX 7504830
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Battlefield 4
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
- Radeon HD 697033
- GeForce GTX 75032
FPS (higher is better)
Bioshock Infinite
DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA
- Radeon HD 697038
- GeForce GTX 75041
FPS (higher is better)
Crysis 3
DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA
- Radeon HD 697023
- GeForce GTX 75021
FPS (higher is better)
Medal Of Honor Warfighter
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
- Radeon HD 697031
- GeForce GTX 75032
FPS (higher is better)
Metro Last Light
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
- Radeon HD 697024
- GeForce GTX 75025
FPS (higher is better)
Bioshock Infinite
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
- Radeon HD 697024
- GeForce GTX 75022
FPS (higher is better)