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GeForce GTS 150 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

The GeForce GTS 150 has core clock speeds of 740 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260X, which has core speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M260X should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTS 150 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 150 32000 MB/sec
Difference: 32000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 150 will be a lot (about 139%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150 47360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X 19800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 27560 (139%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTS 150 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTS 150 11840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5240 (79%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTS 150 Radeon R7 M260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 10, 2009 June 2014
Code Name G92b Opal
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 740 MHz 825 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 141 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 32000 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47360 Mtexels/sec 19800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11840 Mpixels/sec 6600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 384
Texture Mapping Units 64 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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 get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTS 150

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Radeon R7 M260X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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