Radeon HD 8850M and Radeon R5 M230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8850M vs Radeon R5 M230
Radeon HD 8850M
1002
Radeon R5 M230
424
Radeon HD 8850M
Radeon R5 M230
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Venus
Jet / Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
January 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
725 MHz
855 MHz
Compute units
-
5
Core clock speed
575 MHz
855 MHz
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
547.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
unknown
Texture fill rate
25.00
17.10
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+