Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1425 MHz on this specific card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs 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

In theory, the Radeon R9 380 4G is 1040% quicker than the Radeon R5 M230 overall, 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 is much (about 596%) more effective 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 superior to the Radeon R5 M230, 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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.