AMD Radeon R5 A230 vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Boost Clock855MHz

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A230

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X +441%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

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Radeon R9 M485X

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2016

All-In-One

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

855 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

32

320

Shading Units

2048

20

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

17.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

547.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

34.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

Amethyst

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

5 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.3

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