AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

779 points
37% slightly better overall score
566 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

19 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
8 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz
1531 MHz
39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz
1594 MHz
59% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s
85% significantly higher memory bandwidth
56.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W
10 W
1049% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s
25.5 Gigapixels/s
44% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s
61% significantly higher texture rate
38.26 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896
133% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

56
133% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586
317th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce MX330 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R7 260X graphics card is better than the GeForce MX330 in our tests.

The GeForce MX330 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce MX330 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX330 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 260X over the GeForce MX330.

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