GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with a clock speed of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 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 950M		3330 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 2210 (197%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 950M should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M is much (more or less 113%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19400 (113%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950M is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8904 (156%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.