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GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

The GeForce GT 230 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 800 MHz on this particular model. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1015 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1100 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 230 should in theory perform a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M375 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 230 38400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M375 35200 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is a lot (more or less 361%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375 40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230 8800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31800 (361%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is quite a bit (more or less 269%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 230, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375 16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 11840 (269%)

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 GT 230 Radeon R9 M375
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2009 2015
Code Name GT218 Cape Verde
Memory 1536 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1015 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 2200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 35200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 40600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 16240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 640
Texture Mapping Units 16 40
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 260 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 230

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