GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which has core clock speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 GeForce GTX 950 should be 65% faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41728 (65%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a lot (approximately 148%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29352 (148%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be a lot (more or less 396%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26168 (396%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.