GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which comes with GPU clock speed of 780 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 320 Stream Processors, 20 TAUs, and 4 Raster Operation 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 1050		6657 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 5376 (420%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be a lot (approximately 247%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (more or less 1289%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R5 M230, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed 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 this number, the better the 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.