GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which has a GPU core clock speed of 780 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB will be 260% quicker than the Radeon R5 M230 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 41600 (260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB will be a lot (more or less 100%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15600 (100%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7280 (233%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 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.