GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which has GPU core speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 230		65 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 560 should be 199% quicker than the GeForce GT 230 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 76288 (199%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (approximately 755%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66400 (755%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be much (about 327%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 230, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (327%)

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.