Radeon R7 M260X vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 570, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 165376 (258%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be much (about 655%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 129704 (655%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a lot (approximately 466%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30776 (466%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.