GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which has a core clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, 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

GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 3246 (74%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 59 (62%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be a bit (more or less 17%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10528 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18464 (105%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.