GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 780 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 320 SPUs as well as 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 1050		6657 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 5376 (420%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (approximately 247%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38560 (247%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be a lot (more or less 1289%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R5 M230, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40208 (1289%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.