GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which features GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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 970M		7520 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 3139 (72%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970M		75 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X should be 8% faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a bit (approximately 20%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12320 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970M is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26752 (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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.