AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 9 months 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)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +229%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

May 2014

Gem System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

5

-

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Sun

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

Sun LE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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