AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XTX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock2435MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

4960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 330W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XTX +12365%

24.93 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2014

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2075 MHz

Base Clock

-

2435 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

2

-

5120

Shading Units

160

320

TMUs

8

128

ROPs

4

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

311.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

779.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

49.87 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

24.93 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

1.558 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

330W

TDP

19W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Caicos

Navi 21 XTXH (215-121000247)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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