Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 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

Radeon RX 570		12108 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 10988 (981%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 570 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 213376 (1334%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be much (approximately 771%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 132344 (771%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31656 (553%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.