Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (44%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 560 should in theory be a little bit better than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 10688 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be much (about 22%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is just a bit (more or less 7%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 260X, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1200 (7%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.