GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with a core clock frequency of 825 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1630 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 34304 (54%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 will be much (more or less 181%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35880 (181%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1630 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21240 (322%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.