GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 725 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units 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 GTX 950M		3330 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 74 (2%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform exactly the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M will be a lot (more or less 110%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19160 (110%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M is quite a bit (about 152%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 M265, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8824 (152%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.