GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which features 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

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 2155 (49%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (40%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 60 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 950 is 2% faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 1728 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (more or less 25%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12448 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be much (more or less 86%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15168 (86%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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