GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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

GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 6486 (148%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 167 (176%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (26%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 120000 (115%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 is quite a bit (more or less 77%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47600 (77%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be much (about 282%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49600 (282%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.