GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M230, which comes with core clock 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 750		3958 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 2677 (209%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 750 should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64000 (400%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 750 is quite a bit (more or less 109%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17040 (109%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 750 is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13200 (423%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per 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 worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.