GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 M260X should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB will be a lot (about 70%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13800 (70%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB will be a lot (more or less 45%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3000 (45%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.