GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		111888 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 95888 (599%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 should be quite a bit (approximately 142%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		41472 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24312 (142%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		16128 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10408 (182%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.