Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R5 M230, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 780 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 26657 (2081%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Nvidia Titan Xp should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 544845 (3405%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp will be quite a bit (approximately 2334%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 364080 (2334%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 148752 (4768%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.