GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator 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 1050		6657 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 5537 (494%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is quite a bit (approximately 216%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 37000 (216%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be quite a bit (more or less 657%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37608 (657%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.