Radeon R5 230: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.57% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon R5 230 sales 3 April 2014. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 10.67 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. N/A power connector is required, and power consumption is at 19 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon R5 230: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 1166 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Caicos | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Design | reference | |
| Release date | 3 April 2014 (10 years ago) | |
| Current price | $76 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
Radeon R5 230's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R5 230's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 160 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Number of transistors | 370 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 19 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 5.000 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 200.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R5 230 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCIe 1.0 x4 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 168 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | N/A |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R5 230: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bandwidth | 10.67 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R5 230. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | |
| Eyefinity | 1 | |
| HDMI | + | |
| DisplayPort support | - |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R5 230. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| AppAcceleration | - | |
| CrossFire | 1 | |
| Enduro | - | |
| HD3D | - | |
| PowerTune | - | |
| TrueAudio | - | |
| ZeroCore | - | |
| PowerPlay | + | |
| DDMA audio | - |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R5 230, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Mantle | - |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R5 230. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R5 230 is GeForce 7600 GT, which is slower by 2% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
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