Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 7870
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
N/A
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
160
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 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
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
+
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-