GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all 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 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs 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

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
	Difference: 181 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is 38% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (38%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be quite a bit (about 50%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20608 (50%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.