
Radeon R5 M230 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon R5 M230
424
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon R5 M230
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Jet / Sun
Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
November 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
855 MHz
1545 MHz
Compute units
5
-
Core clock speed
855 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
547.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.10
222.5
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_0)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
+
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
+
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-