GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has core 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 Texture Address Units 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 GTX 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 31 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 260X should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is quite a bit (approximately 41%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17760 (41%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is just a bit (more or less 0%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 960M, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64 (0%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.