Radeon R3 Graphics vs GeForce 800M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1059not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.48no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF117Beema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date17 March 2014 (10 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 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 cores48128
Core clock speed738 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors585 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate5.9044.800
Floating-point processing power0.1417 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs88

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).

Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno 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

Supported technologies

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

GPU Boost2.0no data
Optimus+-
GameWorks+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2014 28 January 2015

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 10 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 800M and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 800M is a notebook card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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