GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1625 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		120 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 190912 (184%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 134%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82400 (134%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 309%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54400 (309%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out 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 card will be at 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 the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.