AMD Radeon R5 M230
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6850M
AMD Radeon R5 M230
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6850M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

920
Place in performance rating
601
GCN
Architecture
Terascale 2
Jet
Code name
Granville
Laptop
Type
Laptop
7 January 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
6 January 2011 (10 years ago)
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Price now
$338
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Value for money
0.31
Jet / Sun
GPU code name
Granville Pro/LP
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
800
855 MHz
Core clock speed
575 / 675 MHz
855 MHz
Boost Clock
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690 million
Transistor count
1,040 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
17.10
Texture fill rate
27.00
547.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,080.0 gflops
5
Compute units
no data
320
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
855 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
690 million
Number of transistors
1,040 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
50 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Laptop size
large
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus support
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1000 MHz
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
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Eyefinity
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
no data
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HD3D
no data
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PowerTune
no data
-
TrueAudio
no data
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ZeroCore
no data
-
Enduro
no data
1
DualGraphics
no data
1
Switchable graphics
no data
+
PowerPlay
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 11
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4
5.1
Shader Model
no data
Not Listed
OpenCL
no data
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Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R5 M230 and AMD Radeon HD 6850M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon R5 M230 or AMD Radeon HD 6850M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M230
AMD Radeon HD 6850M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M230
AMD Radeon HD 6850M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M230
AMD Radeon HD 6850M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M230
AMD Radeon HD 6850M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R5 M230
AMD Radeon HD 6850M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R5 M230

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6850M

2.42% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (800 vs 320)

More memory bandwidth (25.6 GB/s vs 16 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon R5 M230 or AMD Radeon HD 6850M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6850M .

AMD Radeon R5 M230 versus AMD Radeon HD 6850M performance benchmarks comparison

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