Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 384 SPUs along with 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

Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		850 points
	Difference: 270 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 is a little bit (approximately 10%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1560 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 520 (10%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.