Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units 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 GTX 670		7351 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 2970 (68%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 670		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 670 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (85%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 is much (about 66%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40880 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11680 (66%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.