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GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 950 uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1652 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which has a core clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, 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 950 6536 points
Radeon R7 260X 4381 points
Difference: 2155 (49%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X 14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950 10 Mh/s
Difference: 4 (40%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950 155 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X 95 Sol/s
Difference: 60 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950 90 Watts
Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Difference: 25 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 950 should be 2% faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 1728 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a lot (about 25%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950 49152 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12448 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15168 (86%)

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 950 Radeon R7 260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2015 October 2013
Code Name GM206 Bonaire XTX
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1024 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 6608 MHz 6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 115 watts
Bandwidth 105728 MB/sec 104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49152 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32768 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 896
Texture Mapping Units 48 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2940 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 950

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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