GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 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

GeForce GTX 970M		7520 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 6400 (571%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 970M should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M will be quite a bit (approximately 331%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56760 (331%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be quite a bit (more or less 675%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38632 (675%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.