AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs AMD Radeon 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +505%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

8

160

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

Lexa

Caicos PRO

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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