Radeon HD 5850 vs 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress PRO) | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 1440 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 18 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 72 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5850 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5850 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| TDP | 151 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Sep 2009 | vs | 3 Apr 2014 |
Radeon HD 5850
23.20 GP/s
Radeon R5 230
2.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
52.20 GT/s
Radeon R5 230
5.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
128.00 GB/s
Radeon R5 230
10.67 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5850
2088.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R5 230
200.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better