GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with GPU core speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 46080 (288%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be quite a bit (approximately 142%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24440 (142%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be much (approximately 82%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4680 (82%)

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 transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.