Radeon R5 230 OEM vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 9 months late
Lower TDP (19W vs 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 230 OEM
200
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+1260%
2720
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Mar 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
667 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
20
160
Shading Units
1600
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
19W
TDP
228W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
Cypress
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
5.0
