NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +3632%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

36

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

160

144

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Caicos

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

445 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

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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