GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260X, which has core speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 950 should be 65% faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41728 (65%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is a lot (about 148%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29352 (148%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26168 (396%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the 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 the core speed of the card. 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.