Radeon R5 230 and Radeon R6 Graphics - video card comparison

Radeon R5 230

Radeon R6 Graphics

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

Caicos

Spectre Lite

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2014

September 2014

Bus support

PCIe 1.0 x4

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

N/A

-

Boost clock speed

-

600 MHz

Core clock speed

-

533 MHz

Floating-point performance

200.0 gflops

503.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

384

Power consumption (TDP)

19 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.000

14.40

Memory type

DDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

64 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

-

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

10.67 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_0)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.0

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

DDMA audio

-

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerPlay

+

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-