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GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon R9 M265X
IntroThe GeForce GT 230 comes with a core clock speed of 550 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 800 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M265X, which has a clock frequency of 575 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksMemory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M265X will be 88% faster than the GeForce GT 230 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon R9 M265X is much (more or less 161%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)
Pixel RateThe Radeon R9 M265X should be a lot (about 109%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GT 230, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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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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