GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is a lot (approximately 216%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.