Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 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

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

In theory, the Geforce GTX 760 should perform a lot faster 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 is a lot (about 53%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a lot (about 78%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 260X, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.