GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1125 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M365X should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 230 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 33600 (88%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be a lot (approximately 320%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28200 (320%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be a lot (approximately 236%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 230, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10400 (236%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.