Radeon RX 470 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon RX 470
8339
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon RX 470
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
N/A
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
-
Core clock speed
926 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
160
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
+
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-