GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this 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 980		13552 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 10296 (316%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 980 should be 600% quicker than the Radeon R7 M265 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 192000 (600%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 is much (approximately 728%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 126728 (728%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R7 M265, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66264 (1142%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.