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Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

The Geforce GTX 680 features a core clock frequency of 1006 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1536 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1625 MHz on this specific model. 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 680 7650 points
Radeon R7 260X 4381 points
Difference: 3269 (75%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 680 16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X 14 Mh/s
Difference: 2 (14%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Geforce GTX 680 195 Watts
Difference: 80 Watts (70%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 680 will be 85% faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 88256 (85%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be quite a bit (approximately 109%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 67168 (109%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680 32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14592 (83%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 680 Radeon R7 260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2012 October 2013
Code Name GK104 Bonaire XTX
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1006 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 195 watts 115 watts
Bandwidth 192256 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128768 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32192 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 896
Texture Mapping Units 128 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3540 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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