GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be a lot (about 200%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 125%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.