GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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

GeForce GTX 870M		4770 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 389 (9%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 870M		110 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 260X should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 870M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 870M will be a lot (about 71%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 870M		105392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43792 (71%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 870M is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 870M		22584 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4984 (28%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.