Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand and Switch GPU - video card comparison
Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand
Switch GPU
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Sun
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2013
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
825 MHz
768 MHz
Core clock speed
750 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
528.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
256
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.50
12.29
Memory type
DDR3
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126