GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    217%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 117% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 260X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260X

The Radeon R7 260X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 260X
GPU NameGK106 ()vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs896
Compute Units2vs14
Core clock1058 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R7 260X
TDP65 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date27 Nov 2013vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 650
    2880
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)