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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R7 M260 vs 850M among Laptop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6.3 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 4,000 MHz | vs | 2,002 MHz | Around 2x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | vs | 32 GB/s | 2x higher memory bandwidth | |||
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| Much better T-Rex score | 2,606.42 | vs | 1,688.22 | Around 55% better T-Rex score | |||
| Significantly higher clock speed | 902 MHz | vs | 620 MHz | More than 45% higher clock speed | |||
| Better PassMark score | 1,499 | vs | 653 | More than 2.2x better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 14,358.5 | vs | 4,787 | Around 3x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Significantly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 16,135 | vs | 7,810 | More than 2x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Much higher dead space 3 framerate | 57.85 fps | vs | 21.5 fps | Around 2.8x higher dead space 3 framerate | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 4,385.5 | vs | 1,897 | More than 2.2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Much higher diablo III framerate | 61 fps | vs | 37.5 fps | Around 65% higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Much higher crysis 3 framerate | 14 fps | vs | 6.8 fps | More than 2x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,154.6 GFLOPS | vs | 549.1 GFLOPS | More than 2x better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 936 MHz | vs | 715 MHz | More than 30% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 14.43 GPixel/s | vs | 5.72 GPixel/s | More than 2.5x higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher texture rate | 36.1 GTexel/s | vs | 17.16 GTexel/s | More than 2x higher texture rate | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 2.43 frames/s | vs | 0.93 frames/s | More than 2.5x better T-Rex score | |||
| Higher bioshock infinite framerate | 28.4 | vs | 8.4 | Around 3.5x higher bioshock infinite framerate | |||
| More render output processors | 16 | vs | 8 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 28.4 fps | vs | 13.5 fps | More than 2x higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 26.99 | vs | 8.23 | More than 3.2x better fire strike factor score | |||
| More shading units | 640 | vs | 384 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 40 | vs | 24 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce GTX 850M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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