Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 6870
2285
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 6870
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
160
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-