GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with core clock speeds of 715 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX 860M		4340 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 3220 (288%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 860M should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M is much (about 346%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59352 (346%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M is a lot (about 123%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7032 (123%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.