Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (600%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be quite a bit (approximately 256%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43880 (256%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11720 (205%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.