GeForce GTX 555 OEM vs Radeon R5 230

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1203not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.16no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCaicosGF114
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 years ago)14 May 2011 (13 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 cores160288
Core clock speedno data736 MHz
Number of transistors370 million1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate5.00035.33
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.8479 TFLOPS
ROPs424
TMUs848

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).

Bus supportPCIe 1.0 x4no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm210 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsN/A2x 6-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data957 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s91.87 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 VGA2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
​PowerPlay+no data
DDMA audio-no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 April 2014 14 May 2011
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 150 Watt

R5 230 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 689.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 230 and GeForce GTX 555 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 230
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