GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking981not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.29no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeG70
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)14 November 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

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 cores192no data
Core clock speedno data500 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data302 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt108 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.00
ROPsno data16
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 dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data228 mm
Widthno data2-slot

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 dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data51.2 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 14 November 2005
Chip lithography 28 nm 110 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 108 Watt

R5 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 10 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 800% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) and GeForce 7800 GTX 512. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while GeForce 7800 GTX 512 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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