GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is just a bit (approximately 10%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1800 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13240 (231%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.