GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with clock speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 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

GeForce GTX 980M		9476 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 8356 (746%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980M should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M will be quite a bit (about 481%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82488 (481%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M is much (more or less 1061%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60712 (1061%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.