GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M265, which comes with clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units 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 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 4371 (134%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 M265		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 960 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M265 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80000 (250%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is quite a bit (approximately 315%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54728 (315%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30264 (522%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.