Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 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 690		13111 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 9855 (303%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 690 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 M265 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 352512 (1102%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (more or less 1246%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 216840 (1246%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (more or less 910%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 M265, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52760 (910%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.