Radeon R5 230 and Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition - video card comparison
Radeon R5 230
Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
Caicos
R423
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
October 2005
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Core clock speed
-
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
160 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
-
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
5.000
8.000
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
32 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
9.0b (9_2)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-