Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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

In theory, the Radeon RX 570 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be quite a bit (approximately 143%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is quite a bit (about 112%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card 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 ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.