Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 RX 470		11756 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 10636 (950%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 195200 (1220%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (approximately 591%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 101368 (591%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23912 (418%)

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 across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.