Radeon R3 Graphics vs R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1087not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBeemaBeema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 April 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 cores128128
Core clock speedno data267 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data930 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 data6.3
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 28 January 2015

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) is a notebook card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)
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