AMD Radeon RX 560X vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X +2410%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

Radeon HD 6230

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jul 2011

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

2

1024

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Park

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Park S3 LP

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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