GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with a core clock speed of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation 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

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		4200 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 3080 (275%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (800%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is quite a bit (about 139%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23832 (139%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 will be a lot (about 412%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.