GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 590 Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 24 Mar 2011

Radeon R7 260X Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 8 Oct 2013

Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 590
155%
Radeon R7 260X
100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

GeForce GTX 590
209%
Radeon R7 260X
100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 590

109% higher gaming performance.

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

250 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 590 .

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 590

The GeForce GTX 590 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce GTX 590		Radeon R7 260X
GPU Name	GF110 (GF110-351-A1)	vs	Bonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process	40 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	520 mmÂ²	vs	160 mmÂ²
Transistors	3,000 million	vs	2,080 million
Shaders	512	vs	896
Compute Units	16	vs	14
Core clock	608 MHz	vs	1100 MHz
ROPs	48	vs	16
TMUs	64	vs	56

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 590		Radeon R7 260X
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	384 bit x2	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	854 MHz 3416 MHz effective	vs	1625 MHz 6500 MHz effective
Memory Size	1536 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 590		Radeon R7 260X
TDP	365 watts	vs	115 watts
Release Date	24 Mar 2011	vs	8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 590
39.00 GP/s
Radeon R7 260X
17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 590
77.80 GT/s
Radeon R7 260X
61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 590
328.00 GB/s
Radeon R7 260X
104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 590
2488.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 260X
1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 590
9740
Radeon R7 260X
6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

GeForce GTX 590
47
Radeon R7 260X
23

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

GeForce GTX 590
62
Radeon R7 260X
29