GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 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 Titan Black		11666 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 10546 (942%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black is 2000% quicker than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320000 (2000%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be quite a bit (about 1143%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 196200 (1143%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36952 (646%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.