AMD Radeon R5 A230: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon R5 A230 sales 7 January 2014. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon R5 A230: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Jet | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 7 January 2014 (10 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon R5 A230's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R5 A230's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 320 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 780 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 855 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 690 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Texture fill rate | 17.10 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point performance | 0.5472 gflops | of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R5 A230 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | |
| Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R5 A230: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R5 A230. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon R5 A230, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R5 A230 is GeForce GT 730A.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon R5 A230 according to our statistics.
