GeForce RTX 4010 vs Radeon R5 230
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1267 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 2.12 | no data |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | Ampere (2020−2025) |
| GPU code name | Caicos | GA107 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Design | reference | no data |
| Release date | 3 April 2014 (11 years ago) | 16 April 2024 (1 year 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 | 160 | 768 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 1417 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1762 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 370 million | 8,700 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 8 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 19 Watt | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 5.000 | 42.29 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2 TFLOPS | 2.706 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 4 | 16 |
| TMUs | 8 | 24 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 24 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 6 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB | 768 KB |
| L2 Cache | 128 KB | 2 MB |
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 support | PCIe 1.0 x4 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Length | 168 mm | 163 mm |
| Width | 1-slot | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | N/A | None |
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 | DDR3 | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 10.67 GB/s | 96 GB/s |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
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 | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Eyefinity | + | - |
| HDMI | + | - |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| CrossFire | + | - |
| PowerPlay | + | no data |
| DDMA audio | - | no data |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.3 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 3 April 2014 | 16 April 2024 |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 8 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 19 Watt | 50 Watt |
R5 230 has 163.2% lower power consumption.
RTX 4010, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 230 and GeForce RTX 4010. We've got no test results to judge.
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