Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) and Radeon R7 (Kaveri) - video card comparison

Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge)

Radeon R7 (Kaveri)

Architecture

GCN 1.2 (2015−2016)

GCN 1.1 (2014)

GPU code name

Bristol Ridge

Kaveri

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2016

June 2014

Boost clock speed

900 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

512

512

Power consumption (TDP)

12-45 Watt

-

Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

64/128 Bit

Shared memory

+

+

DirectX

12 (FL 12_0)

12 (FL 12_0)