GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1625 MHz on this particular model. 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

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 947 (28%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a small bit (approximately 4%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2208 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2752 (19%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.