GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 17901 (409%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 354752 (341%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is much (approximately 230%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141440 (230%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72640 (413%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.