Geforce GTX 780 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260, which features GPU clock speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, 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 780		10082 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 8962 (800%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 780 is 1702% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272384 (1702%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 will be much (more or less 866%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 148536 (866%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 780 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35704 (624%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.