GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which features clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 260X should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 5696 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a little bit (approximately 11%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5920 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1630 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10240 (58%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 can be applied per 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.