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GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon R7 260X
IntroThe GeForce GTX 295 has a clock speed of 576 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 999 MHz. It also features a 448-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 240 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 28 ROPs.Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthIn theory, the GeForce GTX 295 will be 115% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 295 will be quite a bit (approximately 50%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 295 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)
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. One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of. Price Comparison
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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