Geforce GTX 770 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which features 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 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 770 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160384 (251%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be much (about 576%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114088 (576%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be a lot (about 407%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26872 (407%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.