
Radeon R5 230 OEM and Radeon Instinct MI8 - video card comparison
Radeon R5 230 OEM
Radeon Instinct MI8
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
Caicos
Fiji
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
December 2016
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
625 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
8,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
4096
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
256.0
Memory type
DDR3
HBM
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
1334 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131