Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R7 M260

Radeon R5 M230 Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE Release date: 7 Jan 2014

Radeon R7 M260 Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE Release date: 11 Jun 2014

Summary

Synthetic performance index

Radeon R5 M230
100%
Radeon R7 M260
106%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M230

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 M260

Around 6% higher average synthetic performance.

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 M260

The Radeon R7 M260 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	Radeon R5 M230		Radeon R7 M260
GPU Name	Jet (Jet PRO)	vs	Topaz (Topaz XT)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	77 mmÂ²	vs	77 mmÂ²
Transistors	1,040 million	vs	unknown
Shaders	320	vs	384
Compute Units	5	vs	6
Core clock	780 MHz	vs	940 MHz
ROPs	8	vs	8
TMUs	20	vs	24

Memory Configuration

	Radeon R5 M230		Radeon R7 M260
Memory Type	DDR3	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	64 bit	vs	128 bit
Memory Speed	1000 MHz 2000 MHz effective	vs	900 MHz 3600 MHz effective
Memory Size	4096 Mb	vs	1024 Mb

Additional details

	Radeon R5 M230		Radeon R7 M260
TDP	0 watts	vs	0 watts
Release Date	7 Jan 2014	vs	11 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

Radeon R5 M230
6.84 GP/s
Radeon R7 M260
7.52 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

Radeon R5 M230
17.10 GT/s
Radeon R7 M260
22.56 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

Radeon R5 M230
16.00 GB/s
Radeon R7 M260
57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

Radeon R5 M230
547.20 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 M260
721.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

Radeon R5 M230
1770
Radeon R7 M260
1880

Points (higher is better)

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