GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which features clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 1080		21942 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 17561 (401%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 458 (482%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1080 will be 215% faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 223680 (215%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be a lot (more or less 317%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 195520 (317%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be much (about 484%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 85248 (484%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within 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 RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.