GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs 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 970		10867 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 9747 (870%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 970, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 208000 (1300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be a lot (approximately 536%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 92040 (536%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61480 (1075%)

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 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 card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.