GeForce GT 705 OEM vs Radeon R5 230

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking1167not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCaicosGF119
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 years ago)27 March 2014 (10 years ago)
Current price$76 $322

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16048
Core clock speedno data874 MHz
Number of transistors370 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt29 Watt
Texture fill rate5.0006.992
Floating-point performance200.0 gflops167.8 gflops

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).

Bus supportPCIe 1.0 x4no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsN/Ano data

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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1650 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s13.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity1no data
HDMI++
DisplayPort support-no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration-no data
CrossFire1no data
Enduro-no data
HD3D-no data
PowerTune-no data
TrueAudio-no data
ZeroCore-no data
​PowerPlay+no data
DDMA audio-no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkanno dataN/A
Mantle-no data
CUDAno data2.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 29 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 230 and GeForce GT 705 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 230
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