AMD Radeon R5 M230 vs AMD Radeon R9 M265X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M265X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (855MHz vs 625MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M265X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M265X +105%

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

VS

Radeon R9 M265X

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

Gem System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

855 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

10

320

Shading Units

640

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.880 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

12.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

390.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

24.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

Venus

Jet S3 ULT

GPU Variant

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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