AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X +1218%

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Aug 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

24

160

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

Trinidad

Caicos PRO

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

180W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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