AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM and NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 180 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
  • 7.3x more memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 183 MHz
Launch date 21 December 2013 vs 25 July 2000
Core clock speed 625 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed 1334 MHz vs 183 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

  • 160x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 800 MTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Name AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1681
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3290
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3290
PassMark - G2D Mark 142
PassMark - G3D Mark 5

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Celsius
Code name Caicos NV11 B2
Launch date 21 December 2013 25 July 2000
Place in performance rating 1151 1148
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 625 MHz 200 MHz
Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 180 nm
Pipelines 160
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 20 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 4x
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 7.0
OpenGL 4.4 1.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Memory bandwidth 10.67 GB / s 2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1334 MHz 183 MHz
Memory type DDR3 SDR