GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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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 980		13552 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 9171 (209%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (43%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 313 (329%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 980, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 120000 (115%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be quite a bit (approximately 134%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82528 (134%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54464 (309%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.