GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    134%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R7 260X
GPU NameGF114 (GF114-400-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs896
Compute Units8vs14
Core clock823 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 TiRadeon R7 260X
TDP170 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    30
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    34
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    23
  • Radeon R7 260X
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    29
  • Radeon R7 260X
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    25
  • Radeon R7 260X
    26

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    19
  • Radeon R7 260X
    22

FPS (higher is better)