Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1125 MHz on this model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M370X should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is much (about 105%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16400 (105%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is a lot (approximately 310%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R5 M230, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9680 (310%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.