GeForce RTX 2070 Super 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 rated70
Place by popularitynot in top-10088
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data42.17
Power efficiencyno data15.85
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameJetTU104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2014 (10 years ago)9 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

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 cores3202560
Core clock speed780 MHz1605 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors690 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data215 Watt
Texture fill rate17.10283.2
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPS9.062 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs20160
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2014 9 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

RTX 2070 Super has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A230 and GeForce RTX 2070 Super. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 2070 Super is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 A230
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