Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features GPU clock speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 R9 380 4G		8837 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 7556 (590%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 4G is 1040% quicker than the Radeon R5 M230 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 166400 (1040%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be much (approximately 596%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 93040 (596%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is a lot (about 895%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R5 M230, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27920 (895%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a 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 it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.