GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M265, which comes with a clock frequency of 725 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 1359 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be 208% faster than the Radeon R7 M265 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 66496 (208%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be much (approximately 66%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11400 (66%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 272%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M265, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15800 (272%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.