AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock1050MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
1888 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (19W vs 300W)