GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 5416 (484%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950 is 561% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 89728 (561%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is quite a bit (about 186%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31992 (186%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is quite a bit (about 473%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27048 (473%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.