Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700, which comes with core speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 should perform much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 442752 (2767%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be quite a bit (approximately 1252%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 195360 (1252%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90640 (2905%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.