AMD Radeon R5 230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI 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).

AMD Radeon R5 230

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
7.9x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 150 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	3 April 2014 vs 2 March 2009
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI

Around 40% higher pipelines: 224 vs 160

Pipelines	224 vs 160

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI

Name	AMD Radeon R5 230	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI
PassMark - G3D Mark	222
PassMark - G2D Mark	255
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	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M SLI
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	G9x
Code name	Caicos	NB9E-GTX
Design	AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
Launch date	3 April 2014	2 March 2009
Place in performance rating	1319	not rated
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	55 nm
Pipelines	160	224
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	1508 Million
Core clock speed		550 MHz
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
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11	10
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Memory clock speed		950 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
PowerPlay
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD