Radeon R7 265X OEM vs R5 (Stoney Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking978not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.38no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeCuracao
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)12 August 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 cores1921280
Core clock speedno data900 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data74.00
Floating-point processing powerno data2.368 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80

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 3.0 x16
Lengthno data210 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data179.2 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 HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 12 August 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 150 Watt

R5 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 1 year, and 1150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) and Radeon R7 265X OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon R7 265X OEM is a desktop one.


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