GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which features a clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 896 SPUs, 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 Titan		10162 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 5781 (132%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be quite a bit (approximately 204%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 125888 (204%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is quite a bit (approximately 128%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 260X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22576 (128%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.