Radeon R5 230 OEM vs Radeon HD 4855
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4855 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (19W vs 110W)
Radeon HD 4855 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 230 OEM
200
Radeon HD 4855
+268%
736
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Jan 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
667 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
8
160
Shading Units
640
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.200 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.40 GTexel/s
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
736.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
147.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
19W
TDP
110W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
RV770
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
(215-0669065)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
