Geforce GTX 780 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 along with 56 Texture Address Units 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 780		10082 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 5701 (130%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 780		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Geforce GTX 780		250 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 780 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 184384 (177%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 is much (about 169%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104096 (169%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 will be much (about 135%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23824 (135%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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