GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which makes use of 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 card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator 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 950		6536 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 3280 (101%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (40%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 950 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M265 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 73728 (230%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be much (about 182%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31752 (182%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is a lot (more or less 465%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 M265, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26968 (465%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.