AMD Radeon R5 230: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The Radeon R5 230 is a graphics card by AMD, built on the 40 nm process and based on the Caicos graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

9264

3DMark Fire Strike

320

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

Caicos

Model number

Caicos PRO

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

40 nm

Transistors

370 million

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Apr 3rd, 2014

Family

Volcanic Islands
(R5 200)

Production

End-of-life

Predecessor

Sea Islands

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

Memory Type

DDR3

Memory Bus

64 bit

Bandwidth

10.67 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

2.500 GPixel/s

Texture fillrate

5.000 GTexel/s

FP32 (float) performance

200.0 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

667 MHz
1334 Mbps effective

GPU Clock

625 MHz

Render Config

Shading Units

160

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

Compute Units

2

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

128 KB

Board Design

Slot Width

Single-slot

Length

168 mm
6.6 inches

Thermal design power (TDP)

19 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

Display Connectors

1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA

Power Connectors

None

Board Number

C164

API support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.4

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

5.0