GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260, which features GPU core speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, 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 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 82304 (514%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be much (approximately 224%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38520 (224%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be a lot (approximately 387%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22120 (387%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few 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.