Radeon R7 M260X vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which has core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 480 4GB should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 165376 (258%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should be quite a bit (more or less 715%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141480 (715%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 4GB should be quite a bit (more or less 443%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29240 (443%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.