GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260, which features core clock speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M260 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 4000 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 should be much (about 43%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5160 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 130 will be a lot (approximately 40%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2280 (40%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.