Radeon Vega 7 vs R5 230

Place in the ranking	1209	532
Place by popularity	not in top-100	18
Power efficiency	2.06	11.38
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Caicos	Cezanne
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	3 April 2014 (10 years ago)	13 April 2021 (3 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 cores	160	448
Core clock speed	no data	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1900 MHz
Number of transistors	370 million	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	45 Watt
Texture fill rate	5.000	53.20
Floating-point processing power	0.2 TFLOPS	1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	8
TMUs	8	28

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 support	PCIe 1.0 x4	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	N/A	None

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 type	DDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	no data	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
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.

DirectX	DirectX® 11	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	6.4
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	-	1.2

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	1−2 −2100%	22 +2100%
1440p	2−3 −1500%	32 +1500%
4K	1−2 −1500%	16 +1500%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.57	7.47
Recency	3 April 2014	13 April 2021
Chip lithography	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	45 Watt

R5 230 has 136.8% lower power consumption.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has a 1210.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 230 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R5 230 is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.