GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with core speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 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 660 Ti		6013 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 4893 (437%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be 800% quicker than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (800%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be much (approximately 497%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85320 (497%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 284%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16240 (284%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied per second.

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