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Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

The Radeon R7 260X features a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with GPU core speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 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

Radeon RX 570 12108 points
Radeon R7 260X 4381 points
Difference: 7727 (176%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570 26 Mh/s
Radeon R7 260X 14 Mh/s
Difference: 12 (86%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570 298 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X 95 Sol/s
Difference: 203 (214%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X 115 Watts
Radeon RX 570 150 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X 104000 MB/sec
Difference: 125376 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is quite a bit (more or less 143%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X 61600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 87904 (143%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is quite a bit (approximately 112%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 19776 (112%)

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 Radeon R7 260X Radeon RX 570
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2013 April 2017
Code Name Bonaire XTX Polaris 20
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1100 MHz 1168 MHz
Memory Speed 6500 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 115 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 104000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61600 Mtexels/sec 149504 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17600 Mpixels/sec 37376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 896 2048
Texture Mapping Units 56 128
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2080 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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

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