Radeon RX 5770 vs R5 230

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1206not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.07no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameCaicosNavi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores160no data
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors370 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate5.000no data
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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 4.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speedno data14000 MHz
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® 1112.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.2no data

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 225 Watt

R5 230 has 1084.2% lower power consumption.

RX 5770, on the other hand, has a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 230 and Radeon RX 5770. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 230
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