Radeon HD 5750 1GB vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		73600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 57600 (360%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB should be a lot (more or less 47%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		25200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8040 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB will be much (more or less 96%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		11200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5480 (96%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 number of 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.