GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which comes with a clock frequency of 780 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, 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 560 Ti		3466 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 2185 (171%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is 702% faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112256 (702%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be quite a bit (about 237%) better at AF than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 37008 (237%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be much (approximately 743%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R5 M230, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23184 (743%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip 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 Render Output Units by the the card's 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.