AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

AMD Radeon R9 M470

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1000MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470 +182%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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Radeon R9 M470

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

May 2016

Crystal System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

12

-

320

Shading Units

768

20

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Emerald

Sun LE

GPU Variant

Emerald PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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