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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB vs Radeon R7 M260X
IntroThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB comes with core speeds of 513 MHz on the GPU, and 792 MHz on the 640 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 20 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260X, which has a core clock frequency of 825 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksMemory BandwidthAs far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M260X should theoretically be a little bit better than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB should be quite a bit (more or less 24%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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