Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this specific card. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 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 270		5943 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 4662 (364%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 270 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (1020%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 will be much (more or less 362%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56400 (362%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25680 (823%)

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 moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.