Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 7850
3976
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 7850
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
160
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.04
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-