GeForce GT 440 3GB vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with a clock frequency of 825 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 M260X will be 48% quicker than the GeForce GT 440 3GB in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 20800 (48%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X should be a lot (about 39%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5544 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 440 3GB should be a lot (more or less 116%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260X, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7656 (116%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the 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 core 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.