Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 278912 (1743%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be quite a bit (about 1028%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160400 (1028%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 84880 (2721%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.