AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

3936 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 +6230%

12.66 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2014

Vega

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

-

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

2

-

4096

Shading Units

160

256

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

25.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

295W

TDP

19W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Caicos

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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