Radeon R5 230 and Radeon HD 4870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 230 vs Radeon HD 4870 X2
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 4870 X2
1348
Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 4870 X2
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Caicos
R700
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
August 2008
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
-
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
800
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
286 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
28.00
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
10.1 (10_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-