GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed 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 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41600 (260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB is much (about 96%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16440 (96%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB is quite a bit (more or less 68%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3880 (68%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.