GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs Radeon R5 230

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R5 230 and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

R5 230
2014
4 GB DDR3, 19 Watt
0.57

RTX 4060 Ti outperforms R5 230 by a whopping 10330% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking120533
Place by popularitynot in top-10014
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data83.25
Power efficiency2.0925.90
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCaicosAD106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 years ago)18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

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 cores1604352
Core clock speedno data2310 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2535 MHz
Number of transistors370 million22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt160 Watt
Texture fill rate5.000344.8
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS22.06 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs8136
Tensor Coresno data136
Ray Tracing Coresno data34

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 4.0 x8
Length168 mm240 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsN/A1x 16-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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s288.0 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 HDMI 2.1, 3x 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-8.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R5 230 0.57
RTX 4060 Ti 59.45
+10330%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

R5 230 221
RTX 4060 Ti 22933
+10277%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.57 59.45
Recency 3 April 2014 18 May 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 160 Watt

R5 230 has 742.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 Ti, on the other hand, has a 10329.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 230 in performance tests.


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