GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		32384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16384 (102%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 should be much (about 72%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		10000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7160 (72%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is superior to the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		5000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 720 (14%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.