GeForce GTX Titan X vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare all that 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 works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units 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

GeForce GTX Titan X		17879 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 16598 (1296%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan X should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320000 (2000%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X will be much (approximately 1131%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 176400 (1131%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 92880 (2977%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.