GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. 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 470		2937 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 1817 (162%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117920 (737%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 will be quite a bit (about 98%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16832 (98%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 is quite a bit (approximately 324%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18560 (324%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.