Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 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

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

In theory, the Geforce GTX 680 is 85% faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 should be a lot (approximately 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

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is the winner, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.