Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with a clock speed of 825 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 760 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128256 (200%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is quite a bit (approximately 375%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 74280 (375%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24760 (375%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.