Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 387520 (373%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is much (about 415%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 255808 (415%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be much (approximately 673%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 118432 (673%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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