GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP Release date: 9 Oct 2012

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

Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
100%
Radeon R7 260X
131%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
100%
Radeon R7 260X
112%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Supports PhysX

Supports G-Sync

Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

12% higher gaming performance.

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 260X

The Radeon R7 260X is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce GTX 650 Ti		Radeon R7 260X
GPU Name	GK106 (GK106-220-A1)	vs	Bonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	221 mmÂ²	vs	160 mmÂ²
Transistors	2,540 million	vs	2,080 million
Shaders	768	vs	896
Compute Units	4	vs	14
Core clock	928 MHz	vs	1100 MHz
ROPs	16	vs	16
TMUs	64	vs	56

Memory Configuration

	GeForce GTX 650 Ti		Radeon R7 260X
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	128 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	1350 MHz 5400 MHz effective	vs	1625 MHz 6500 MHz effective
Memory Size	1024 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce GTX 650 Ti		Radeon R7 260X
TDP	110 watts	vs	115 watts
Release Date	9 Oct 2012	vs	8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
14.80 GP/s
Radeon R7 260X
17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
59.40 GT/s
Radeon R7 260X
61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
86.40 GB/s
Radeon R7 260X
104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
1425.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 260X
1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
4750
Radeon R7 260X
6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
21
Radeon R7 260X
23

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
25
Radeon R7 260X
29