Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which features clock speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 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 580		13630 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 9249 (211%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		28 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 14 (100%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		315 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 220 (232%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (61%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 580 should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 158144 (152%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 should be a lot (more or less 194%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 119408 (194%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 580 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22624 (129%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.