In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Club3D CoolStream Super OC 1GB Edition are very slightly better than the AMD Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition.

The R7 260X has a 130 MHz higher core clock speed and the same number of Texture Mapping Units as the GTX 560. This results in the R7 260X providing 7.3 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 260X has a 130 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 560, but the GTX 560 has 16 more Render Output Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the GTX 560 exhibits a 12.3 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R7 260X. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 260X was released over a year more recently than the GTX 560, and so the R7 260X is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GTX 560.

The GeForce GTX 560 Club3D CoolStream Super OC 1GB Edition and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The GTX 560 has 35.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 260X, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 560 is noticeably better than the R7 260X.

The GeForce GTX 560 Club3D CoolStream Super OC 1GB Edition has 336 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition has 896. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 560 is 605 and the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 784. The R7 260X having 179 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the GTX 560 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The R7 260X transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 560. This means that the R7 260X is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 560.

The GeForce GTX 560 Club3D CoolStream Super OC 1GB Edition requires 176 Watts to run and the Radeon R7 260X v2 PowerColor OC 1GB Edition requires 105 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 450 Watts for the GTX 560 and a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 260X. The GTX 560 requires 71 Watts more than the R7 260X to run. The difference is significant enough that the GTX 560 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 260X.