Radeon R5 230 and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 230 vs Radeon HD 5550
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon HD 5550
387
Radeon R5 230
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Caicos
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
February 2010
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Core clock speed
-
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
320
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
8.800
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-