GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M330, which has core clock speeds of 1030 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 230 will be 167% faster than the Radeon R5 M330 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (167%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 should be a lot (approximately 134%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11800 (134%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M330 is superior to the GeForce GT 230, by far. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3840 (87%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that 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 amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.