GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X should be 622% faster than the GeForce 930M in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (about 177%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 930M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is the winner, and very much so. (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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.