GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which features a GPU core clock speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 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 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 13864 (426%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (57%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be 950% quicker than the Radeon R7 M265 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 304000 (950%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 911%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158600 (911%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90200 (1555%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.