GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon R5 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
16224 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+41190%
82580
Radeon R5 230
200
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+295%
36328
Radeon R5 230
9189
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 40
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
128
SM Count
-
16384
Shading Units
160
512
TMUs
8
176
ROPs
4
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
72 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
450W
TDP
19W
850 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
Caicos
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
5.0