GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) will be 5% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 4800 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (more or less 69%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25200 (69%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (18%)

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. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.