Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 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

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 7727 (176%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (86%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 203 (214%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 125376 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is quite a bit (more or less 143%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87904 (143%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19776 (112%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.