GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce 930M		1490 points
	Difference: 2891 (194%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X will be 622% quicker than the GeForce 930M overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 89600 (622%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is much (more or less 177%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39328 (177%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is quite a bit (more or less 137%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 930M, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10176 (137%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.