GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which has GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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 R7 260X		4381 points
GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 1051 (32%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (109%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 260X is 225% quicker than the GeForce GTX 950M overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 72000 (225%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be quite a bit (about 68%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25040 (68%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2976 (20%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.