Radeon R5 A230 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking514not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.72no data
Power efficiency3.35no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF114Jet
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 January 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384320
Core clock speed823 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data855 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Wattno data
Texture fill rate52.6717.10
Floating-point processing power1.263 TFLOPS0.5472 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs6420

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1002 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.3 GB/s16 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 January 2011 7 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R5 A230 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 560 Ti and Radeon R5 A230. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a desktop card while Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook one.


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