GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R5 M230, which has GPU clock speed of 780 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 Stream Processors, 20 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 430 (OEM) should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M230 is much (approximately 39%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4400 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R5 M230 will be a small bit (approximately 11%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 320 (11%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.