Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has core 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 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

Geforce GTX 670		7351 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 2970 (68%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 670 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (85%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is quite a bit (approximately 66%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40880 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11680 (66%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.