Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 TAUs and 64 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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 20085 (1793%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 624000 (3900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be quite a bit (approximately 1988%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 341176 (1988%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 124584 (2178%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.