Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 260X
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 470
1280 Mb GDDR5
Released 26 Mar 2010
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VS
AMD
Radeon R7 260X
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 8 Oct 2013
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 470100%
- Radeon R7 260X133%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- GeForce GTX 470100%
- Radeon R7 260X100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 470
- Supports PhysX
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon R7 260X
- 100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 .
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | Radeon R7 260X |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) | Bonaire (Bonaire XTX) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,100 million | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 448 | 896 |
| Compute Units | 14 | 14 |
| Core clock | 608 MHz | 1100 MHz |
| ROPs | 40 | 16 |
| TMUs | 56 | 56 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | Radeon R7 260X |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 320 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective | 1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1280 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 470 | Radeon R7 260X |
|---|
| TDP | 215 watts | 115 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Mar 2010 | 8 Oct 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 47017.00 GP/s
- Radeon R7 260X17.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 47034.00 GT/s
- Radeon R7 260X61.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 470134.00 GB/s
- Radeon R7 260X104.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 4701089.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R7 260X1971.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 4704680
- Radeon R7 260X6260
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Medal Of Honor Warfighter
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
- GeForce GTX 47029
- Radeon R7 260X29
FPS (higher is better)