GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 44800 (70%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is quite a bit (about 84%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16600 (84%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) is quite a bit (approximately 215%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14200 (215%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.