GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

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

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 1351 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24128 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is much (approximately 36%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16240 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 is a lot (approximately 47%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8320 (47%)

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 moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.