GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which features GPU core speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GT 1030 should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 M265 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 17152 (54%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 should be much (approximately 133%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23080 (133%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the Radeon R7 M265, by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14440 (249%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.