AMD Radeon R5 230 videocard review

AMD Radeon R5 230

Radeon R5 230 videocard released by AMD; release date: 3 April 2014. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Caicos.

Texture fill rate - 5 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 160. Floating-point performance - 200.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 370 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 19 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 4 GB. Memory bus width - 64 Bit. Memory bandwidth - 10.67 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
222
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
255
Geekbench
OpenCL
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
345150
4127
GFXBench 4.0
Car Chase Offscreen
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
34770 Frames
439 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Car Chase Offscreen
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
34770.000 Fps
439.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823 Frames
992 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823.000 Fps
992.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
2480 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
2480.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 222
PassMark - G2D Mark 255
Geekbench - OpenCL 4127
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen 439 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen 439.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 992 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 992.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 2480 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 2480.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2
Code name Caicos
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
Launch date 3 April 2014
Place in performance rating 1311
Price now $50
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 6.10

Technical info

Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 160
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt
Transistor count 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors N / A

API support

DirectX 11
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory type DDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
​PowerPlay