Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also 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 760		5923 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 1542 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88256 (85%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be much (approximately 53%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32480 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13760 (78%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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