Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon R5 230

Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon R5 230
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2014
Radeon R5 230

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 230

132 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5850 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5850Radeon R5 230
GPU NameCypress (Cypress PRO)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs370 million
Shaders1440vs160
Compute Units18vs2
Core clock725 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs72vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5850Radeon R5 230
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5850Radeon R5 230
TDP151 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2009vs3 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    10.67 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better