GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 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 Ti		17120 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 12739 (291%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 330 (347%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (57%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 232000 (223%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a lot (about 186%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114400 (186%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 reach the maximum fill rate.