Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6900 XT should be 3177% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 508288 (3177%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be much (more or less 3303%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 566840 (3303%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6900 XT is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 227880 (3984%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.