GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q 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-10076
Power efficiency2.17no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCaicosGA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 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 cores1602048
Core clock speedno data832 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1155 MHz
Number of transistors370 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate5.00073.92
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs864
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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 3.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsN/ANone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s96 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 VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 April 2014 17 December 2021
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 30 Watt

R5 230 has 57.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 2050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 230 and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 230 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 230
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