Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 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

Geforce GTX 680		7650 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 3269 (75%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (14%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (70%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 680 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88256 (85%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be much (more or less 109%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67168 (109%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 should be much (about 83%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14592 (83%)

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 transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.