Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 5120 Stream Processors, 320 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6900 XT, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 508288 (3177%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 3644%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 568400 (3644%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6900 XT is superior to the Radeon R5 M230, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 230480 (7387%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.