ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +944%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Apr 2014

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

2

1440

Shading Units

160

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Caicos

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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