NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

367% significantly better overall score

779 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

72 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

303% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1500 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

68% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

146% significantly higher memory bandwidth

104 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

115 W

30% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

511% significantly higher pixel rate

17.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

227% significantly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

227% significantly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

114% significantly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

114% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

283rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R7 260X comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the Radeon R7 260X in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 is better than the Radeon R7 260X.