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GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

The GeForce GTX 950 has a clock frequency of 1024 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1652 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which has core speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs 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 950 6536 points
Radeon R7 M260 1120 points
Difference: 5416 (484%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950 should be 561% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 89728 (561%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a lot (about 186%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 49152 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260 17160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31992 (186%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260 5720 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 27048 (473%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 950 Radeon R7 M260
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2015 June 2014
Code Name GM206 Opal/Topaz
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1024 MHz 715 MHz
Memory Speed 6608 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 105728 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49152 Mtexels/sec 17160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32768 Mpixels/sec 5720 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 384
Texture Mapping Units 48 24
Render Output Units 32 8
Bus Type GDDR5 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2940 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 950

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Radeon R7 M260

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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