Radeon RX 5300 vs R7 (Carrizo)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R7 (Carrizo) with Radeon RX 5300, including specs and performance data.

R7 (Carrizo)
2015
12 Watt
2.01

RX 5300 outperforms R7 (Carrizo) by a whopping 880% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking891282
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.9413.50
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameCarrizoNavi 14
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)28 May 2020 (4 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 cores5121408
Core clock speedno data1327 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1645 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data144.8
Floating-point processing powerno data4.632 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data88

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 4.0 x8
Lengthno data180 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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data3 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data168.0 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 data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD10
−850%
95−100
+850%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−829%
65−70
+829%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−800%
45−50
+800%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−800%
45−50
+800%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−829%
65−70
+829%
Hitman 3 6−7
−817%
55−60
+817%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−841%
160−170
+841%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−850%
95−100
+850%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−757%
300−310
+757%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−829%
65−70
+829%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−800%
45−50
+800%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−800%
45−50
+800%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−829%
65−70
+829%
Hitman 3 6−7
−817%
55−60
+817%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−841%
160−170
+841%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−850%
95−100
+850%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14
−829%
130−140
+829%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−757%
300−310
+757%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−829%
65−70
+829%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−800%
45−50
+800%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−829%
65−70
+829%
Hitman 3 6−7
−817%
55−60
+817%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−841%
160−170
+841%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−850%
95−100
+850%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−817%
110−120
+817%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−757%
300−310
+757%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−800%
18−20
+800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−800%
18−20
+800%
Hitman 3 7−8
−829%
65−70
+829%
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
−817%
55−60
+817%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Watch Dogs: Legion 10−12
−809%
100−105
+809%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
−800%
45−50
+800%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−800%
18−20
+800%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 0−1 0−1
Far Cry 5 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%

This is how R7 (Carrizo) and RX 5300 compete in popular games:

  • RX 5300 is 850% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.01 19.69
Recency 4 June 2015 28 May 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 100 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has 733.3% lower power consumption.

RX 5300, on the other hand, has a 879.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon RX 5300 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 (Carrizo) in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5300 is a desktop one.


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