GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which has core speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M260X should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X is quite a bit (more or less 125%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11000 (125%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2200 (50%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.