Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R5 M230 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 213376 (1334%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 869%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135496 (869%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (approximately 1661%) better at AA than the Radeon R5 M230, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51824 (1661%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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