GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which has a GPU core clock speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, 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 470		2937 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 1817 (162%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117920 (737%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 is a lot (about 98%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16832 (98%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18560 (324%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total 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 in one second.

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