Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Cypress
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
N/A
Core clock speed
850 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
160
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-