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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB vs Radeon R7 M260X
IntroThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB makes use of a 90 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 513 MHz. The GDDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 792 MHz on this specific model. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 20 ROPs.Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksMemory BandwidthIn theory, the Radeon R7 M260X should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB will be a lot (approximately 24%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)
Pixel RateThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB is quite a bit (about 55%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 M260X, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
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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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