Radeon HD 6950 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which features a GPU core clock speed of 780 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 320 Stream Processors, 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

Radeon HD 6950		3240 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 1959 (153%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 6950 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 144000 (900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 is a lot (more or less 351%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54800 (351%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6950 is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22480 (721%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.