AMD Radeon R7 M260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, 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

176 points
325 points
84% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS
6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
5 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
4 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5979 points
6300 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5787 points
6165 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4631 points
5513 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

64 GB/s
122% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

5.72 Gigapixels/s
16.53 Gigapixels/s
188% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

17.16 Gigatexels/s
24.79 Gigatexels/s
44% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
Identical
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

446th of 586
369th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 December
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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 M260X vs GeForce GTX 745 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 745 beats the Radeon R7 M260X in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 745 over the Radeon R7 M260X.

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