GeForce GTX 760 vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 760
    137%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 760
    177%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

77% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 760 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

The GeForce GTX 760 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (9 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon R7 260X
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-225-A2)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1152vs896
Compute Units6vs14
Core clock980 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs96vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 760Radeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 760Radeon R7 260X
TDP170 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2013vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

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

  • GeForce GTX 760
    54
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    64
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    39
  • Radeon R7 260X
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 760
    52
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    54
  • Radeon R7 260X
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • GeForce GTX 760
    41
  • Radeon R7 260X
    26

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra, 4x MSAA, 16x AF, HBAO

  • GeForce GTX 760
    24
  • Radeon R7 260X
    11

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 760
    41
  • Radeon R7 260X
    22

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 760
    37
  • Radeon R7 260X
    23

FPS (higher is better)