GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which has GPU core speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 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		3466 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 2346 (209%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112256 (702%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 207%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35448 (207%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20584 (360%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.