GeForce 810M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 M260 should be a small bit faster than the GeForce 810M overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 should be quite a bit (approximately 191%) better at AF than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11256 (191%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2768 (94%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.