Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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.

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		25 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (79%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480 4GB		267 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 172 (181%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 4GB is 121% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 125376 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB will be a lot (about 162%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 99680 (162%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 4GB is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18240 (104%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.