GeForce GTS 450 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 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 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

GeForce GTS 450		1453 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 333 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTS 450 should be 261% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		57728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41728 (261%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 is quite a bit (approximately 46%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		25056 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7896 (46%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTS 450 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		12528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6808 (119%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.