GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with 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 features 896 Stream Processors, 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 3353 (77%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 43 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be 10% faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 10688 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a little bit (more or less 1%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 320 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23680 (135%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.