Radeon R5 230 and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 230 vs GeForce GTX 1660
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Caicos
Turing TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
March 2019
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1530 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
157.1
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-