GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M265, which comes with core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 960M		4350 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 1094 (34%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 960M should be 100% quicker than the Radeon R7 M265 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be a lot (approximately 152%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26440 (152%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon R7 M265, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11736 (202%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.