GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with GPU core speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, 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

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X should be much 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 a lot (more or less 413%) faster with regards to AF 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 will be much (more or less 120%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 130, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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 max fill rate.