Radeon R7 260X and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon R7 260X
3282
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Bonaire
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
160
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-