GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1625 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator 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 950		6536 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 2155 (49%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (40%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 60 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950 should be a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 1728 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is much (more or less 25%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12448 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a lot (more or less 86%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15168 (86%)

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 moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card 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 card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.