Radeon HD 7570 vs Radeon R5 230

Radeon HD 7570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7570
Radeon R5 230
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2014
Radeon R5 230

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7570

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

41 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7570 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R5 230
GPU NameTurks (Turks PRO-L)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors716 millionvs370 million
Shaders480vs160
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs24vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R5 230
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7570Radeon R5 230
TDP60 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2012vs3 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7570
    5.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7570
    15.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7570
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    10.67 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7570
    624.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better