Radeon HD 7950 3GB vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7950 3GB		229 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 134 (141%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		200 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (74%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7950 3GB will be 131% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950 3GB		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 136000 (131%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 3GB is much (about 45%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950 3GB		89600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28000 (45%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7950 3GB is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950 3GB		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (45%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.