GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 915 (26%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be 23% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24256 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be a small bit (more or less 17%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8992 (17%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be much (approximately 49%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8704 (49%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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