GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with a clock speed of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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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 980 Ti		17120 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 16000 (1429%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320000 (2000%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is quite a bit (about 926%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158840 (926%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90280 (1578%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.