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Radeon R7 M260X vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

The Radeon R7 M260X makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M265, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M260X should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M265 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 64000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265 32000 MB/sec
Difference: 32000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X should be just a bit (about 14%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 19800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265 17400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2400 (14%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260X is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265 5800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 800 (14%)

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 Radeon R7 M260X Radeon R7 M265
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2014 May 1 2014
Code Name Opal Opal XT
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 825 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 32000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 19800 Mtexels/sec 17400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 5800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 384
Texture Mapping Units 24 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR5 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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