Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which features a clock speed of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of 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 760		5923 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 4803 (429%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176256 (1102%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is much (more or less 448%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76920 (448%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25640 (448%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.