GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which has core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units 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

The GeForce GTX 960 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M265 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a lot (approximately 315%) more effective at texture 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 a high screen resolution 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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.