Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which has clock speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units 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 670		7351 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 6231 (556%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 670 should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (1100%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 will be much (approximately 497%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85320 (497%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 will be quite a bit (approximately 412%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23560 (412%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can 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 ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.