Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which has core speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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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 RX 460		5595 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 4475 (400%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 460 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be quite a bit (about 256%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.