GeForce 920M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

GeForce 920M		1180 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 60 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M260 should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce 920M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 920M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 920M should be quite a bit (approximately 78%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce 920M		30528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13368 (78%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 920M should be quite a bit (more or less 33%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce 920M		7632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1912 (33%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.