AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 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

779 points

816 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

Identical

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

9 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1317 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1032 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

144.2 GB/s

38% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

21% slightly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

20.64 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

34% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

1.98 TFLOPS

0.51% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

960

7% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

42% many more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586

278th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce GTX 660 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 260X in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 260X 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 660 has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 660 has significantly more memory with 3 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 660 at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660 is faster than the Radeon R7 260X.