GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which features clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		202 Watts
	Difference: 87 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 should be just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		111888 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 7888 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be a lot (more or less 49%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		41472 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20128 (49%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is superior to the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1472 (9%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.