Radeon Sky 500 vs R5 A230

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated459
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data5.80
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameJetPitcairn
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2014 (12 years ago)27 March 2013 (12 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 cores3201280
Core clock speed780 MHz950 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rate17.1076.00
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPS2.432 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2080
L1 Cache80 KB320 KB
L2 Cache128 KB512 KB

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 supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s154 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort countno data1
Dual-link DVI support-+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2014 27 March 2013

R5 A230 has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A230 and Radeon Sky 500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Sky 500 is a workstation one.

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AMD Radeon R5 A230
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