GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 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 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 speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan is 177% faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is a lot (about 204%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is the winner, and very much so. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.