RTX A2000 Mobile 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 rated207
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.55
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameJetGA106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2014 (10 years ago)12 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 cores3202560
Core clock speed780 MHz893 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHz1358 MHz
Number of transistors690 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data95 Watt
Texture fill rate17.10108.6
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPS6.953 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2080
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16

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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s176.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2014 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX A2000 Mobile has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A230 and RTX A2000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook graphics card while RTX A2000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 A230
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