GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M230, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 780 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. 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 650 Ti		3434 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 2153 (168%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70400 (440%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 281%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43792 (281%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 650 Ti is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11728 (376%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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