GeForce GTX Titan X vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which has GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, 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 Titan X		17879 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 13498 (308%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan X should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 232000 (223%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X is a lot (about 212%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 130400 (212%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78400 (445%)

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 transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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