AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 240 OEM
+199%
0.599 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 230 OEM
0.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Dec 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
730 MHz
Base Clock
-
780 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
160
24
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
6.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
18.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
599.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
37.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
19W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Oland
GPU Name
Caicos
-
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.95 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
77 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
