Radeon R5 230 and Radeon Instinct MI250X - video card comparison

Radeon R5 230

Radeon Instinct MI250X

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

GPU code name

Caicos

Aldebaran

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

April 2014

November 2021

Bus support

PCIe 1.0 x4

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

N/A

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1700 MHz

Floating-point performance

200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

58,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

14080

Power consumption (TDP)

19 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.000

1,496

Memory type

DDR3

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

128 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

8192 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

10.67 GB/s

3,277 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

No outputs

Eyefinity

HDMI

DisplayPort support

DirectX

DirectX® 11

N/A

Mantle

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

Shader Model

5.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

AppAcceleration

CrossFire

DDMA audio

Enduro

HD3D

PowerPlay

PowerTune

TrueAudio

ZeroCore