In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 260X v3 are very slightly better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Power Edition OC 1GB.

The R7 260X has a 7 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 650 Ti, but the GTX 650 Ti has 8 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the GTX 650 Ti exhibits a 7.6 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the R7 260X. 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 7 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 650 Ti and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the R7 260X 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 R7 260X was released over a year more recently than the GTX 650 Ti, 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 650 Ti.

The R7 260X 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. However, overall, the GTX 650 Ti has superior memory performance.

The GTX 650 Ti has 6.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 260X, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 650 Ti is marginally better than the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 260X v3 has 896 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Power Edition OC 1GB has 768. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 762 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 650 Ti is 763. The GTX 650 Ti having 1 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 650 Ti delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the R7 260X.

The Radeon R7 260X v3 requires 85 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 R7 260X.