GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R5 M230, which features GPU clock speed of 780 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

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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 1050		6657 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 5376 (420%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be 617% quicker than the Radeon R5 M230 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (more or less 247%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38560 (247%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40208 (1289%)

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 transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.