GeForce GT 340 1GB vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all that 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 as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 340 1GB will be 240% faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (240%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 340 1GB is a small bit (approximately 3%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 440 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.