AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon R5 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Lower TDP (19W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
+885%
1.971 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 230
0.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R7 260X
1476
Radeon R5 230
+522%
9189
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Apr 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1625 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
896
Shading Units
160
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
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-
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1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
115W
TDP
19W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
Caicos
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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6.3
Shader Model
5.0
