GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs 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 550 Ti		1897 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 777 (69%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 68%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, and very much so. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.