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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB vs Radeon R7 M260X
IntroThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB uses a 90 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 513 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 792 MHz on this specific model. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 20 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which has a GPU core clock speed of 825 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksMemory BandwidthPerformance-wise, the Radeon R7 M260X should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB is a lot (about 24%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB is the winner, by a large margin. (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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max 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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