Radeon R5 230 OEM vs Radeon HD 4250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.67GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)
120 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 230 OEM
+316%
200
Radeon HD 4250
48
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Feb 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
667 MHz
Memory Clock
396 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
6.336GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
2
160
Shading Units
40
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.376 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.376 GTexel/s
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
47.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
19W
TDP
25W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
RV620
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
RV620 LE
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
