AMD Radeon R7 M260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, 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

232 points

91% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5767 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5130 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

940 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

719 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

980 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

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

32 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s

158% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

23.52 Gigatexels/s

93% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

100% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th of 586

489th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.6

Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce GT 720M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon R7 M260 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 720M in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 M260 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon R7 M260 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 M260 is better than the GeForce GT 720M.