GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this specific model. 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 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

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a small bit (more or less 17%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 is quite a bit (more or less 49%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 260X, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.