GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224384 (351%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be a lot (about 847%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 167688 (847%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33576 (509%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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