GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M265, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 725 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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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 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 4371 (134%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 960 is 250% quicker than the Radeon R7 M265 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (250%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be quite a bit (approximately 315%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54728 (315%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30264 (522%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.