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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 999 MHz on this particular card. It features 216 SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M380, which comes with GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 will be 17% quicker than the Radeon R9 M380 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 111888 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 15888 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 will be just a bit (about 4%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 41472 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1472 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 16128 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 128 (1%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Radeon R9 M380
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 16, 2008 2015
Code Name G200 Cape Verde
Memory 896 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 202 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 111888 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41472 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16128 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 216 640
Texture Mapping Units 72 40
Render Output Units 28 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1400 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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