Radeon R7 M260X vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 50688 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (more or less 280%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55400 (280%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12200 (185%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.