GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 46080 (288%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is quite a bit (more or less 142%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24440 (142%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by far. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4680 (82%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.