GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 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 570		4387 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 6 (0%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 104 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 570 will be 46% faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (46%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (approximately 40%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17680 (40%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video 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 number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.