Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 780 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs 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

Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		850 points
	Difference: 431 (51%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

Both cards have exactly the same texel fill rate, so in theory they should be equally good at at AF. (explain)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2080 (67%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one 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 it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.