GeForce GT 340 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which has 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 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GT 340 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 340		54400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (240%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 340 is a bit (approximately 3%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GT 340		17600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 440 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1320 (30%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.