GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M265, which features a core clock frequency of 725 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 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

GeForce GTX 570		4387 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 1131 (35%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 570		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 570 should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M265 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 120000 (375%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 should be a lot (about 152%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26520 (152%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 is a lot (more or less 405%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M265, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23480 (405%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.