Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 725 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. 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

Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
Radeon R7 240		1218 points
	Difference: 2038 (167%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 M265 should perform a bit faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M265 should be a small bit (approximately 19%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2800 (19%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 is a bit (more or less 1%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M265, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40 (1%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 max fill rate.