GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260, which features a core clock frequency of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation 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 560		3030 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 1910 (171%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112128 (701%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 will be a lot (about 164%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28200 (164%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20200 (353%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated 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 it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many 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.