NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 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

1419 points

82% significantly better overall score

779 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

52% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1500 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

104 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

115 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

114% significantly higher pixel rate

17.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

14% slightly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

283rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

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 960 vs Radeon R7 260X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the Radeon R7 260X in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 960 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 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 960 is better than the Radeon R7 260X.