Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically perform 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 should be quite a bit (more or less 375%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260X, 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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.