GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this particular card. 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

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce GTX 470		2937 points
	Difference: 1444 (49%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (87%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 470 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 29920 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be much (more or less 81%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27608 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 should be quite a bit (approximately 38%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 260X, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6680 (38%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per 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. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.