Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 550, which features a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 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 550		3507 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 2387 (213%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 550 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 will be much (more or less 105%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18040 (105%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be quite a bit (approximately 208%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M260, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11880 (208%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.