GeForce 920M vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 780 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
GeForce 920M		1180 points
	Difference: 101 (9%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R5 M230 should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce 920M in general. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 920M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 920M is much (approximately 96%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce 920M		30528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14928 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 920M is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 920M		7632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4512 (145%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.