GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with clock speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1650 should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 67072 (105%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 is quite a bit (approximately 320%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 63360 (320%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1650 is superior to the Radeon R7 M260X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40920 (620%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.