GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 M260 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 130 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 4000 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 will be much (more or less 43%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5160 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 130 will be a lot (more or less 40%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2280 (40%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.