GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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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

The Radeon R7 260X should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 230 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is quite a bit (more or less 600%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is a better choice, 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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.