Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which features GPU core speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 512 Stream Processors, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 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

Radeon RX 550		3507 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 2226 (174%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 550, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be much (more or less 126%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19600 (126%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 will be a lot (approximately 464%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R5 M230, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14480 (464%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.