GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 915 (26%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is 23% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24256 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be just a bit (more or less 17%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8992 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8704 (49%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed per 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 higher the texel rate, the better the 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its 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 core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill 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.