AMD Radeon R7 M260 vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB, 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
278 points
19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
6 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5767 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3517 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5710 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4645 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5130 points
6238 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5311 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3389 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

940 MHz
38% slightly higher core clock speed
680 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

32 GB/s
102.4 GB/s
220% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s
11.3 Gigapixels/s
44% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

23.52 Gigatexels/s
45.18 Gigatexels/s
92% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
768
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
64
166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
32
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th of 586
388th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3
4.5

Radeon R7 M260 vs Quadro K3100M specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro K3100M graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 M260 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K3100M over the Radeon R7 M260.

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