Radeon R7 M265DX vs R5 230

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R5 230 and Radeon R7 M265DX, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

R5 230
2014
4 GB DDR3, 19 Watt
0.57

R7 M265DX outperforms R5 230 by a whopping 126% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking12031026
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.08no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameCaicosTopaz
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 years ago)12 October 2014 (10 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 cores160384
Core clock speedno data925 MHz
Boost clock speedno data940 MHz
Number of transistors370 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.00022.56
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.7219 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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 x16IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/sno data

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 VGANo outputs
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 compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.3
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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.

R5 230 0.57
R7 M265DX 1.29
+126%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

R5 230 221
R7 M265DX 498
+125%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.57 1.29
Recency 3 April 2014 12 October 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R7 M265DX has a 126.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 months, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon R7 M265DX is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 230 in performance tests.


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