GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

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

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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 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 3246 (74%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 59 (62%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 960 should be a little bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be a small bit (about 17%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10528 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18464 (105%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.