In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 260 are marginally better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Power Edition OC 1GB.

The Radeon R7 260 has a 7 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 650 Ti, but the GTX 650 Ti has 16 more Texture Mapping Units than the Radeon R7 260. As a result, the GTX 650 Ti exhibits a 15.6 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the Radeon R7 260. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The Radeon R7 260 has a 7 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 650 Ti and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the Radeon R7 260 providing 0.1 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon R7 260 was released over a year more recently than the GTX 650 Ti, and so the Radeon R7 260 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 650 Ti.

The Radeon R7 260 has 1024 MB more video memory than the GTX 650 Ti, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the Radeon R7 260 also has superior memory performance overall.

The Radeon R7 260 has 9.6 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 650 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon R7 260 is marginally better than the GTX 650 Ti.

Both the Radeon R7 260 and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Power Edition OC 1GB have 768 Shader Processing Units. While the two GPUs have the same number of SPUs, the actual performance delivered by the GTX 650 Ti is 763 and by the Radeon R7 260 is 763. Knowing that the shader performance of the GTX 650 Ti is superior, it is not necessary to examine the GPUs' respective Texture and Pixel Fill Rates.

The Radeon R7 260 requires 95 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Power Edition OC 1GB. We would recommend a PSU with at least 450 Watts for the Radeon R7 260.