GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 216 (227%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 7978 (182%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be 89% faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 92608 (89%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (more or less 96%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58880 (96%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (about 311%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54688 (311%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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