Radeon R7 (Carrizo) vs R5 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated891
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.94
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code nameSpectre SLCarrizo
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)4 June 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 cores256512
Core clock speed497 MHzno data
Boost clock speed720 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million2410 Million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt12-35 Watt
Texture fill rate7.952no data
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs16no data

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceIGPno data
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64/128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
Shared memoryno 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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model6.0no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 4 June 2015
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 12 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 8 months, and 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and Radeon R7 (Carrizo). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop card while Radeon R7 (Carrizo) is a notebook one.


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