AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 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

25% slightly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

30 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

18 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

1841 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

84% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

47% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

27.44 Gigapixels/s

55% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

2.63 TFLOPS

33% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

1344

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

100% significantly 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

283rd of 586

306th 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 670 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 260X beats the GeForce GTX 670 in gaming performance.

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. In addition, the Radeon R7 260X also 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 670 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 260X over the GeForce GTX 670.