ATI Radeon 7000 PCI vs R5 A230

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code nameJetRV100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2014 (10 years ago)19 February 2001 (23 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed780 MHz133 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million30 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rate17.100.4
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs203

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCI
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB32 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz133 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s2.128 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2014 19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 180 nm

R5 A230 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A230 and Radeon 7000 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook card while Radeon 7000 PCI is a desktop one.


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