Radeon R5 230 and GeForce GT 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 230 vs GeForce GT 230
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon R5 230
GeForce GT 230
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Caicos
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
October 2009
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Core clock speed
-
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
48
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
15.60
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-