Radeon R5 M230 vs R5 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1089
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameSpectre SLJet
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)7 January 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 cores256320
Compute unitsno data5
Core clock speed497 MHz825 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz855 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattunknown
Texture fill rate7.95217.10
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPS0.5472 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1620

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 x8
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Eyefinity-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration-+
HD3D-+
PowerTune-+
DualGraphics-+
ZeroCore-+
Switchable graphics-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)DirectX® 11
Shader Model6.05.1
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.0Not Listed
Vulkan1.2.131-
Mantle-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 7 January 2014

R5 Graphics has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and Radeon R5 M230. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop card while Radeon R5 M230 is a notebook one.


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