GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which has clock 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 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB should be 35% faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22400 (35%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB is a lot (approximately 200%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39592 (200%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB is superior to the Radeon R7 M260X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		14848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8248 (125%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.