Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which features core clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 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

Radeon RX 460		5595 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 4475 (400%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (600%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 is much (about 256%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43880 (256%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11720 (205%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.