Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 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

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 8968 (205%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 13 (93%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 185 (195%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 480 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 158144 (152%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 should be much (more or less 162%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 99680 (162%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18240 (104%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.