Radeon R5 230 and Radeon Vega 8 Efficient - video card comparison
Radeon R5 230
Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name
Caicos
Raven
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
April 2018
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Boost clock speed
-
1100 MHz
Core clock speed
-
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
4,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
512
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
35.20
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_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-