Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and Radeon R7 (Kaveri) - video card comparison
Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
Radeon R7 (Kaveri)
Architecture
GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)
GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code name
Carrizo
Kaveri
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2015
June 2014
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
686 MHz
Core clock speed
-
553 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2410 Million
2410 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
512
Power consumption (TDP)
12-35 Watt
-
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Shared memory
+
+
DirectX
12 (FL 12_0)
12 (FL 12_0)