Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which has core clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator 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 680		7650 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 4394 (135%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (14%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 680 should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M265 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160256 (501%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 is quite a bit (about 640%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 111368 (640%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is superior to the Radeon R7 M265, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26392 (455%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.