GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which features a GPU core clock speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, 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 550 Ti		1897 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 777 (69%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 82496 (516%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be a lot (more or less 68%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11640 (68%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be a lot (more or less 278%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15880 (278%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.