GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which comes with GPU clock speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, 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

Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 1359 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 M265 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 66496 (208%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be much (about 66%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11400 (66%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is a lot (about 272%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M265, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15800 (272%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.