GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 130		75 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 260X should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 130 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 92000 (767%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be quite a bit (more or less 413%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49600 (413%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be quite a bit (approximately 120%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GT 130, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (120%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. 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.