GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 260 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 is much (approximately 115%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260		36864 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19704 (115%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 260 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.