Radeon R5 230 and GeForce GT 420M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 230 vs GeForce GT 420M
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GT 420M
417
Radeon R5 230
GeForce GT 420M
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Caicos
N11P-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2014
September 2010
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
-
Core clock speed
-
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
96
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
6.0 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
(G)DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-