GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which has GPU core speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, 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 970		10867 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 7611 (234%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 970		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 970 should be 600% quicker than the Radeon R7 M265 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 192000 (600%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be a lot (more or less 528%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91800 (528%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be much (more or less 1059%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M265, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61400 (1059%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.