Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which features a clock frequency of 780 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation 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

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 4642 (362%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 should be much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176256 (1102%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a lot (more or less 503%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78480 (503%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28240 (905%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.