Radeon R5 230 OEM vs HD 6720G2

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking946not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameno dataCaicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date14 June 2011 (13 years ago)21 December 2013 (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 cores880160
Core clock speedno data625 MHz
Number of transistorsno data370 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data19 Watt
Texture fill rateno data5.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data667 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data10.67 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1111.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2011 21 December 2013

R5 230 OEM has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6720G2 and Radeon R5 230 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6720G2 is a notebook card while Radeon R5 230 OEM is a desktop one.


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