ATI Radeon 3000 IGP vs R2 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1097not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.75no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeRS780
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)2009 (15 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 cores12840
Core clock speedno data350 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors3100 Million180 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.400
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no 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 dataMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.0
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

R2 (Stoney Ridge) has a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) and Radeon 3000 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon 3000 IGP is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)
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