GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units 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

GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 575 (13%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 129 Watts (112%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 580 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88384 (85%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be a lot (approximately 25%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12192 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 580 should be a lot (approximately 111%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19456 (111%)

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 transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.