ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP vs Radeon R5 A230

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rage 3 (1997−1998)
GPU code nameJetRage 3
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2014 (10 years ago)1 March 1997 (27 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed780 MHz75 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm350 nm
Texture fill rate17.100.08
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs201

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8AGP 2x
Widthno data1-slot

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 typeDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz75 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s600.0 MB/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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)6.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2014 1 March 1997
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 350 nm

R5 A230 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 204700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A230 and 3D Rage PRO AGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook card while 3D Rage PRO AGP is a desktop one.


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