Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 7950
4907
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 7950
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Compute units
28
-
Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
160
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
89.60
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
+
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-