GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce GT 230		65 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 550 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 230 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 76288 (199%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be much (approximately 300%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26400 (300%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 should be a lot (more or less 300%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 230, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13200 (300%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.