Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M230, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 780 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 TAUs and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 760		5923 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 4642 (362%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 760 should be much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176256 (1102%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a lot (more or less 503%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78480 (503%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be much (about 905%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R5 M230, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28240 (905%)

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 over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 that the graphics chip can 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 core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.