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GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1080 comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1607 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5X RAM is set to run at 1251 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M230, which comes with core speeds of 780 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1080 21942 points
Radeon R5 M230 1281 points
Difference: 20661 (1613%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080 327680 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 311680 (1948%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (more or less 1548%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080 257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 241520 (1548%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080 102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 3120 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 99728 (3196%)

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 GTX 1080 Radeon R5 M230
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2016 2014
Code Name GP104-400 Jet Pro
Memory 8192 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1607 MHz 780 MHz
Memory Speed 10008 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 180 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 327680 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 257120 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 102848 Mpixels/sec 3120 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 320
Texture Mapping Units 160 20
Render Output Units 64 4
Bus Type GDDR5X DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7200 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across 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 type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1080

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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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