Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce GT 730 OEM

Radeon R7 M260
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 11 Jun 2014
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Apr 2015
GeForce GT 730 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 M260
    120%
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M260

Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 730 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 M260

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 M260

The Radeon R7 M260 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M260GeForce GT 730 OEM
GPU NameTopaz (Topaz XT)vsGK107 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock940 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M260GeForce GT 730 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M260GeForce GT 730 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date11 Jun 2014vs9 Apr 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260
    7.52 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    7.94 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260
    22.56 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    31.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M260
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M260
    721.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    762.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 M260
    1880
  • GeForce GT 730 OEM
    1560

Points (higher is better)