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Radeon R9 380X and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 380X vs Radeon R5 230

Radeon R9 380X
6380
Radeon R5 230
228

Radeon R9 380X

Radeon R5 230


Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
Antigua
Caicos

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
November 2015
April 2014

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
​2 x 6-pin
N/A

Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-

Boost clock speed
970 MHz
-

Compute units
32
-

Floating-point performance
3,973 gflops
200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
5,000 million
370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
160

Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
19 Watt

Texture fill rate
124.2
5.000

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
970 MHz
-

Memory bandwidth
182.4 GB/s
10.67 GB/s

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity
1
1

Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
+
-

DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11

Mantle
+
-

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.4

Shader Model
6.3
5.0

Vulkan
+
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
1
1

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

FRTC
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

​PowerPlay
-
+

PowerTune
+
-

TrueAudio
+
-

VCE
+
-

ZeroCore
+
-