GeForce GT 340 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all 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 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340		69 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 46 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X should be 91% quicker than the GeForce GT 340 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (91%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a lot (more or less 250%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44000 (250%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is superior to the GeForce GT 340, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13200 (300%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.