GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M230, which features 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 560 Ti 448		4200 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 2919 (228%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (800%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 will be much (approximately 163%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25392 (163%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's 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 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.