GeForce GTX 650 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 runs at a speed of 1625 MHz on this particular model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs 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		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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 260X should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 650 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (approximately 82%) more effective at 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 a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is superior to the GeForce GTX 650, though only just barely. (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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.