GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M230, which has clock speeds of 780 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. 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

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		10900 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 9619 (751%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320000 (2000%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti should be much (approximately 1246%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		210000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194400 (1246%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti should be quite a bit (about 1246%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R5 M230, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		42000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38880 (1246%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must 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 are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 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 max fill rate.