Radeon R7 Graphics vs R4 (Stoney Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1070not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.34no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeSpectre
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)11 January 2014 (10 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 cores192512
Core clock speedno data720 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz980 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data31.36
Floating-point processing powerno data1.004 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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 dataIGP
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.0
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 11 January 2014

R4 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) and Radeon R7 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon R7 Graphics is a desktop one.


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