AMD Radeon 530X Mobile vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

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AMD Radeon 530X Mobile AMD Radeon R5 A230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 530X Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1024MHz vs 855MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530X Mobile +43%

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile

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Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

5

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 24

GPU Name

Jet

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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