Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 64 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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 20085 (1793%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 295X2 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 624000 (3900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (more or less 1988%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 341176 (1988%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be quite a bit (about 2178%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 124584 (2178%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.