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Radeon R5 230 OEM vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 130W)
Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock1845MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 230 OEM
200
Radeon RX 5500 XT +2498%
5196

Graphics Card

Dec 2013
Release Date
Dec 2019
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1845 MHz
667 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s

Render Config

2
Compute Units
22
160
Shading Units
1408
8
TMUs
88
4
ROPs
32
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

19W
TDP
130W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Caicos
GPU Name
Navi 14
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
7 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
6.4 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
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