GeForce 920M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. 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 920M		1180 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 60 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 M260 should theoretically be a small bit better than the GeForce 920M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 920M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 920M will be a lot (about 78%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce 920M		30528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13368 (78%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 920M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 920M		7632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1912 (33%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.