Radeon HD 7870M vs Radeon R5 M230

Radeon HD 7870M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 24 Apr 2012
Radeon HD 7870M
Radeon R5 M230
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 7 Jan 2014
Radeon R5 M230

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870M

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M230

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7870M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7870M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7870MRadeon R5 M230
GPU NameHeathrow (Heathrow XT)vsJet (Jet PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders640vs320
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock800 MHzvs780 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7870MRadeon R5 M230
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7870MRadeon R5 M230
TDP45 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date24 Apr 2012vs7 Jan 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7870M
    12.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M230
    6.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7870M
    32.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M230
    17.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7870M
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M230
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7870M
    1024.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M230
    547.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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