Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which features 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 670		7351 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 6231 (556%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 670 is 1100% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (1100%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 will be quite a bit (about 497%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85320 (497%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23560 (412%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.