AMD Radeon R5 230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 79% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 160 vs 8
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 222 vs 46
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 110
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 April 2014 vs 1 July 2004
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 160 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 222 vs 46
PassMark - G2D Mark 255 vs 110

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
222
46
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
255
110
Name AMD Radeon R5 230 ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark 222 46
PassMark - G2D Mark 255 110
Geekbench - OpenCL 4127
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 992
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2480
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2480

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R5 230 ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 R400
Code name Caicos M18
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
Launch date 3 April 2014 1 July 2004
Place in performance rating 1313 1310
Price now $50
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 6.10

Technical info

Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 160 8
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 160 million
Boost clock speed 350 MHz
Core clock speed 350 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors N / A
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 11 9.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 10.67 GB / s 19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 300 Bit
Memory type DDR3 256
Memory clock speed 600 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
​PowerPlay
Powerplay