Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which features core clock speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units 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

Radeon R7 250X		2860 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 1740 (155%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 250X should be 350% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X is much (approximately 133%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22840 (133%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X is much (about 180%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10280 (180%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.