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GeForce 8800 GT 1GB vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 1GB has a clock speed of 600 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It is made up of 112 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M230, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 780 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 Stream Processors, 20 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 8800 GT 1GB should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 1GB will be much (approximately 115%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 18000 (115%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 1GB is much (approximately 208%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R5 M230, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 3120 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6480 (208%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Radeon R5 M230
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 2014
Code Name G92 Jet Pro
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 780 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 3120 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 320
Texture Mapping Units 56 20
Render Output Units 16 4
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 1GB

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Radeon R5 M230

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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