Radeon R6 Graphics vs R5 (Bristol Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking841not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.98no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBristol RidgeSpectre Lite
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)17 September 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 cores384384
Core clock speedno data533 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors3100 Million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data14.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
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 width64/128 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 17 September 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 15 Watt

R5 (Bristol Ridge) has an age advantage of 1 year, and 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) and Radeon R6 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon R6 Graphics is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)
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