GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with a clock frequency of 825 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64256 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 166%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32808 (166%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19704 (299%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at 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 that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.