GeForce 810M vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M230, which has core speeds of 780 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R5 M230 should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce 810M in general. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M230 is much (approximately 164%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230		15600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9696 (164%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R5 M230 will be a bit (about 6%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 810M, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R5 M230		3120 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 168 (6%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.