GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M375, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1015 MHz, and 4096 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1100 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GT 230 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon R9 M375 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is a lot (more or less 361%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31800 (361%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 should be much (more or less 269%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 230, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11840 (269%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.