Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which features clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should be 617% quicker than the Radeon R5 M230 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (approximately 382%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59600 (382%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15680 (503%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.