AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 8 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

171% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

771 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% 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

115.2 GB/s

10% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

100 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

24.67 Gigapixels/s

40% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

98.69 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

2.37 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

1536

71% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

128% 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

382nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

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 Quadro K5100M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 260X GPU is faster than the Quadro K5100M in gaming.

The Radeon R7 260X 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K5100M 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 Quadro K5100M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 260X is better than the Quadro K5100M.