GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260X, which features GPU clock speed of 825 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 960 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be much (more or less 264%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52328 (264%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be much (more or less 446%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29464 (446%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.