GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with core speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 650 is 25% quicker than the Radeon R7 M260X in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16000 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 will be much (more or less 71%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14056 (71%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 will be quite a bit (more or less 156%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10328 (156%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.