GeForce 940M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1625 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units 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 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 2641 (152%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X will be 550% quicker than the GeForce 940M overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 88000 (550%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (more or less 139%) better at AF than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35872 (139%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9024 (105%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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