Radeon R5 (Kaveri) and Curacao - video card comparison

Radeon R5 (Kaveri)

Curacao

Architecture

GCN 1.1 (2014)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Kaveri

Curacao

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

June 2014

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Boost clock speed

626 MHz

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Core clock speed

514 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2410 Million

2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

1280

Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

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Shared memory

+

-

DirectX

12 (FL 12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

-

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

-

1.2.170