Radeon E8870 and Radeon R5 A230 - video card comparison
Radeon E8870
Radeon R5 A230
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Saturn
Jet
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
January 2014
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
-
855 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
780 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
547.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
48.00
17.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131