GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 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

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 6614 (591%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be a lot (about 261%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44760 (261%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35560 (622%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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 potential to reach the max fill rate.