GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which has a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 230		65 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X will be 171% faster than the GeForce GT 230 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 65600 (171%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be a lot (more or less 600%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52800 (600%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13200 (300%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.