
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Vega
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2020
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A
Boost clock speed
2100 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
160
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
5.000
Memory type
-
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
-
4 GB
Memory bus width
-
64 Bit
Memory bandwidth
-
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12_1
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-