GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which has a clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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		2263 points
	Difference: 2118 (94%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 51 Watts (80%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X is 30% faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (30%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be much (about 82%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27744 (82%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is superior to the GeForce GTX 650, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 672 (4%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.