Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce GTX 650 |
Released October, 2013
AMD Radeon R7 260X
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.4 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!Alongside the Radeon R9 280X and R9 270X, AMD launched its entry-level Radeon R7 260X graphics card, fit for visually-intensive desktops with some mild gaming thrown into the mix.
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Released September, 2012
Colorful GeForce GTX 650
- 1.1 GHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6.4 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Temperatures are super low due to a high fan speed, but this offers no tangible benefits to the user - a quieter fan would be better.Price-wise, the KFA² GTX 650 EX OC comes at NVIDIA's reference design price, which is nice given the custom cooler and small overclock out of the box.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R7 260X vs 650 among Desktop GPUs
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 11,820 | vs | 2,870 | More than 4x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 6,500 MHz | vs | 5,000 MHz | 30% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Better PassMark score | 3,128 | vs | 1,831 | More than 70% better PassMark score | |||
| Much higher battlefield 3 framerate | 40.1 fps | vs | 34 fps | Around 20% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,971.2 GFLOPS | vs | 812.5 GFLOPS | Around 2.5x better floating-point performance | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 104 GB/s | vs | 80 GB/s | 30% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 61.6 GTexel/s | vs | 33.9 GTexel/s | More than 80% higher texture rate | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 33.7 | vs | 17.21 | More than 95% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Better video composition score | 63.75 frames/s | vs | 24.07 frames/s | Around 2.8x better video composition score | |||
| More shading units | 896 | vs | 384 | 512 more shading units | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 17.6 GPixel/s | vs | 8.46 GPixel/s | More than 2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,625 MHz | vs | 1,250 MHz | 30% higher memory clock speed | |||
| More texture mapping units | 56 | vs | 32 | 24 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 1,681 | vs | 813 | More than 2x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 13,180 | vs | 1,903 | Around 7x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much better manhattan score | 3,710.5 | vs | 1,752.93 | More than 2x better manhattan score | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 11,600 | vs | 6,931 | More than 65% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Higher bioshock infinite framerate | 32.5 | vs | 13.5 | Around 2.5x higher bioshock infinite framerate | |||
| Lower TDP | 65W | vs | 115W | Around 45% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce GTX 650
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Bioshock Infinite
FarCry 3
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