GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which has a GPU core clock speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 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 930M		1490 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 370 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M260 should in theory be a small bit faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M should be a lot (about 30%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5112 (30%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 930M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1704 (30%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.