GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with core speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 should be 102% quicker than the Radeon R7 M260 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		32384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16384 (102%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 is quite a bit (approximately 72%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		10000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7160 (72%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		5000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 720 (14%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.