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AMD Radeon R5 230
The Radeon R5 230 is a graphics card by AMD, launched in April 2014. Built on the 40 nm process, and based on the Caicos graphics processor, the card supports DirectX 11.0. The Caicos graphics processor is a relatively small chip with a die area of only 67 mm² and 370 million transistors. It features 160 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 ROPs. AMD has placed 1,024 MB DDR3 memory on the card, which are connected using a 64-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 625 MHz, memory is running at 533 MHz.
Being a single-slot card, the AMD Radeon R5 230 does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 19 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x HDMI. Radeon R5 230 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. The card measures 168 mm in length, and features a single-slot cooling solution.
Graphics Processor
| GPU Name: |
Caicos |
| Process Size: |
40 nm |
| Transistors: |
370 million |
| Die Size: |
67 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Released: |
Apr 3rd, 2014 |
| Production Status: |
Active |
| Bus Interface: |
PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Clock Speeds
| GPU Clock: |
625 MHz |
| Memory Clock: |
533 MHz
1066 MHz effective
|
Memory
| Memory Size: |
1024 MB |
| Memory Type: |
DDR3 |
| Memory Bus: |
64 bit |
| Bandwidth: |
8.53 GB/s |
Render Config
| Shading Units: |
160 |
| TMUs: |
8 |
| ROPs: |
4 |
| Compute Units: |
2 |
| Pixel Rate: |
2.50 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate: |
5.00 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance: |
200.0 GFLOPS |
Board Design
| Slot Width: |
Single-slot |
| Length: |
6.6 inches
168 mm |
| TDP: |
19 W |
| Outputs: |
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x HDMI |
| Power Connectors: |
None |
Graphics Features
| DirectX: |
11.0 |
| OpenGL: |
4.3 |
| OpenCL: |
1.2 |
| Shader Model: |
5.0 |
VGA BIOS
GPU-Z Validation
Card Notes
| Direct Rebrand of HD 8450 |
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