GeForce 9800 GTX vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 825 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce 9800 GTX should in theory be a small bit better than the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX		70400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX is quite a bit (more or less 118%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX		43200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23400 (118%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9800 GTX is superior to the Radeon R7 M260X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX		10800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4200 (64%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.