GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB vs Radeon R9 M265X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M265X, which features clock speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB will be 20% quicker than the Radeon R9 M265X overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M265X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB should be much (about 158%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M265X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M265X		23000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36392 (158%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		14848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M265X		9200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5648 (61%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.