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Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon R5 M230 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R5 M230

Radeon HD 7850
3976
Radeon R5 M230
424

Radeon HD 7850

Radeon R5 M230


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name
Pitcairn
Jet / Sun

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
March 2012
January 2014

Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-

Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
855 MHz

Compute units
-
5

Core clock speed
-
855 MHz

Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
547.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
2,800 million
690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
320

Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
unknown

Texture fill rate
55.04
17.10

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
16 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs

Eyefinity
1
+

HDMI
+
-

DisplayPort support
-
-

DirectX
12
DirectX® 11

Mantle
-
+

OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed

OpenGL
4.6
4.4

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
+
-

AppAcceleration
-
+

CrossFire
1
-

DualGraphics
-
1

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
-
+

PowerTune
-
+

Switchable graphics
-
1

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
+