GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M230, which has core speeds of 780 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs 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 980		13552 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 12271 (958%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 980 should be much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 208000 (1300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 will be quite a bit (more or less 824%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 128528 (824%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68944 (2210%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.