AMD Radeon R7 M260 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 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

250 points

7% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

7 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

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

OpenCL compute benchmark

5767 points

16214 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5710 points

19779 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5130 points

13742 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5311 points

12796 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

940 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th of 586

398th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.4

Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon HD 8950 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon HD 8950 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 M260 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 M260 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon R7 M260 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon HD 8950 is better than the Radeon R7 M260.