GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 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 660 Ti		6013 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 1632 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		150 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (38%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is a lot (approximately 66%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40880 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4360 (25%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. 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 faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.