AMD Radeon R5 A230 vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (900MHz vs 855MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A230

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M +26%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

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Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

All-In-One

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

855 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

6

320

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

17.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

547.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

34.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

Mars

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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