Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which features clock 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 770		7854 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 6734 (601%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 770 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 208384 (1302%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 will be much (about 680%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 116728 (680%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 will be quite a bit (more or less 485%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27752 (485%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.