Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M230, which comes with clock speeds of 780 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 Texture Address Units 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 670		7351 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 6070 (474%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 670 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176000 (1100%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 should be a lot (more or less 557%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86880 (557%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, by a large margin. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26160 (838%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video 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 number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 potential to get to the maximum fill rate.