Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM memory. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 Fury X		14793 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 13512 (1055%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 496000 (3100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be much (more or less 1623%) better at AF than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 253200 (1623%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (more or less 2054%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R5 M230, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64080 (2054%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends 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.