NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 7800

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7800, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
190% significantly better overall score
779 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
23666 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
24101 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
22074 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
19534 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
283rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 7800 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 7800 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 970 is faster than the Radeon HD 7800.

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