Radeon R5 A230 vs ATI Mobility 7500
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Rage 7 (2001−2006) | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) |
| GPU code name | M7 | Jet |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 December 2001 (23 years ago) | 7 January 2014 (11 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2 | 320 |
| Core clock speed | 280 MHz | 780 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 280 MHz | 855 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 60 million | 690 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 27 Watt | no data |
| Texture fill rate | 0.56 | 17.10 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 0.5472 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 1 | 8 |
| TMUs | 2 | 20 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 80 KB |
| L2 Cache | no data | 128 KB |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | medium sized | no data |
| Interface | AGP 4x | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | DDR | DDR3 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 32 MB | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 200 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 3.2 GB/s | 16 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | no data |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | 12 (11_1) |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.1 |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2.131 |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 December 2001 | 7 January 2014 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 32 MB | 4 GB |
| Chip lithography | 150 nm | 28 nm |
R5 A230 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon 7500 and Radeon R5 A230. We've got no test results to judge.
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