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Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

The Radeon R7 M260 features a GPU core speed of 715 MHz, and the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory runs at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280X, which has core speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 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 280X 8886 points
Radeon R7 M260 1120 points
Difference: 7766 (693%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 280X should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X 288000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 272000 (1700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X will be a lot (approximately 534%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X 108800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260 17160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 91640 (534%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X is a lot (approximately 376%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X 27200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260 5720 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21480 (376%)

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 Radeon R7 M260 Radeon R9 280X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2014 October 2013
Code Name Opal/Topaz Tahiti XTL
Memory 2048 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 715 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 288000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 17160 Mtexels/sec 108800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5720 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 2048
Texture Mapping Units 24 128
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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