GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare 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 RAM. 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 460		2557 points
	Difference: 1824 (71%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 260X should theoretically be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 17600 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be much (approximately 63%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23800 (63%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1400 (9%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 lots of 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.