Radeon R5 A230 vs HD 6390

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameRedwoodJet
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 July 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2014 (10 years ago)

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 cores320320
Core clock speed550 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data855 MHz
Number of transistors627 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Wattno data
Texture fill rate8.80017.10
Floating-point processing power0.352 TFLOPS0.5472 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1620

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
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR2DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 July 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 Radeon HD 6390 and Radeon R5 A230. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6390 is a desktop card while Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook one.


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