Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 550, which has core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 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 RX 550		3507 points
Radeon R5 M230		1281 points
	Difference: 2226 (174%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 550 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be much (more or less 126%) better at AF than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19600 (126%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 is quite a bit (more or less 464%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R5 M230, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14480 (464%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.