GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 947 (28%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X will be 20% faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a small bit (approximately 4%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2208 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2752 (19%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.