Reasons to consider the

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Report a correction Report a correction

Significantly better T-Rex score 8.62 frames/s vs 3.66 frames/s More than 2.2x better T-Rex score

Lower TDP 250W vs 300W More than 15% lower TDP

Reasons to consider the

Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 Report a correction Report a correction

Is dual GPU Yes vs No About half of graphics cards are dual GPU

Much higher memory bandwidth 384.6 GB/s vs 264 GB/s More than 45% higher memory bandwidth

Much higher texture rate 234.2 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel/s Around 2x higher texture rate

Better floating-point performance 5,621.8 GFLOPS vs 3,789 GFLOPS Around 50% better floating-point performance

Many more texture mapping units 256 vs 128 Twice as many texture mapping units

Higher pixel rate 58.56 GPixel/s vs 29.6 GPixel/s Around 2x higher pixel rate

Significantly more render output processors 64 vs 32 Twice as many render output processors

More memory 4,096 MB vs 3,072 MB Around 35% more memory

Significantly more shading units 3,072 vs 2,048 1024 more shading units

Higher effective memory clock speed 6,008 MHz vs 5,500 MHz Around 10% higher effective memory clock speed

Wider memory bus 512 bit vs 384 bit Around 35% wider memory bus

Better fire strike factor score 71.92 vs 62.9 Around 15% better fire strike factor score