Radeon R5 230 OEM and GeForce FX 5500 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon R5 230 OEM
GeForce FX 5500 PCI
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Caicos
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
-
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
5.000
1.080
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1334 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0a
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A