GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M265, which has a GPU core clock speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 74 (2%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so in theory they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M is a lot (more or less 110%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19160 (110%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950M is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8824 (152%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.