Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1792 SPUs, 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

The Radeon R9 380 4G should in theory be much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is much (more or less 596%) better at texture 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

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 4G is a better choice, and very much so. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.