AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)

The AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) is an integrated graphics card for a number of mid-range mobile Bristol-Ridge-based APUs, such as those from the A10 series. It features 384 shader cores clocked at 720 MHz (15 Watt APUs) or 800 MHz (35 Watt APUs). Depending on the configurable TDP (set per laptop model) and the used main memory, the performance can also differ.

Architecture and Features

The Radeon R5 utilizes the third generation GCN architecture (sometimes referred to as GCN 1.2) similar to the desktop Tonga chip. As a result, it supports DirectX 12 (FL 12_0) with advanced color compression that leads to a 5-7% improvement in games. Furthermore, its shaders can be used with Mantle, OpenGL and OpenCL. HSA 1.0 is supported for running code on both CPU and GPU cores simultaneously. The improved video decoder UVD 6 (Unified Video Decoder) is now able to decode HVEC / H.265 up to 4K in hardware. Furthermore, the VCE (Video Codec Engine) has been improved for faster transcoding of H.264. More information on architecture and features of the Bristol Ridge architecture can be found in our launch article.

Performance

Gaming performance of the integrated R5 GPU depends on the configured TDP, model and main memory of the system. A typical ULV version with a TDP of 15 Watt paired with fast dual channel main memory is nearly on a level with the dedicated GeForce 920M or Radeon R7 M260 (see gaming benchmarks below). Therefore, demanding games of 2015 and 2016 may only run in the lowest detail settings fluently (and some not at all).

Power Consumption

Depending on the configured TDP, the still in 28 nm produced chip may be used in thin-and-light (12 - 20 Watt range) to standard-sized laptops (35 Watt TDP).

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon R (Stoney / Bristol Ridge) Series

Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) (compare)	512 @ 900 (Boost) MHz	64/128 Bit
Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)	384 @ 800 (Boost) MHz	64/128 Bit
Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) (compare)	192 @ 800 (Boost) MHz	64 Bit
Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) (compare)	192 @ 600 (Boost) MHz	64 Bit
Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) (compare)	128 @ 600 (Boost) MHz	64 Bit

Codename

Bristol Ridge

Architecture

GCN 1.2/2.0

Pipelines

384 - unified

Core Speed

800 (Boost) MHz

Memory Bus Width

64/128 Bit

Shared Memory

yes

DirectX

DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)

Transistor Count

3100 Million

technology

28 nm

Features

UVD 6, VCE

Notebook Size

medium sized

Date of Announcement

01.06.2016

CPU		GPU Base Speed	GPU Boost / Turbo
AMD A10-9620P	4 x 2500 MHz, 15 W	? MHz	758 MHz
AMD A10-9600P	4 x 2400 MHz, 15 W	? MHz	720 MHz
AMD PRO A8-9600B	4 x 2400 MHz, 15 W	? MHz	720 MHz
min. - max.		? - ? MHz	720 - 758 MHz

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

min: 54723 avg: 58018 median: 58018 (11%) max: 61313 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

min: 36785 avg: 36979 median: 36979 (5%) max: 37173 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

min: 4797 avg: 4980.5 median: 4980.5 (9%) max: 5164 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

min: 7689 avg: 8255.5 median: 8255.5 (4%) max: 8822 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

min: 994 avg: 1053.5 median: 1053.5 (4%) max: 1113 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

min: 1230 avg: 1283.5 median: 1283.5 (3%) max: 1337 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

min: 50152 avg: 51419.5 median: 51419.5 (7%) max: 52687 Points

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

min: 1672 avg: 1819.7 median: 1874 (6%) max: 1913 points

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

min: 1482 avg: 1707.7 median: 1720 (3%) max: 1921 points

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M -5%

AMD Radeon R5 M320 -3%

Intel Iris Graphics 6100 -3%

AMD Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics -2%

Intel UHD Graphics 620 -2%

AMD Radeon R5 M330 -1%

Intel HD Graphics 630 -1%

AMD Radeon R5 M430 -1%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M 0%

AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 0%

NVIDIA GeForce 920M 0%

AMD Radeon R5 (Carrizo) 0%

AMD FirePro M4100 1%

AMD Radeon R7 (Kaveri) 2%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M 2%

AMD Radeon HD 8750M 2%

NVIDIA GeForce 825M 3%

AMD Radeon R5 M255 4%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 2400%

100%

3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +

GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen

31.6 fps (0%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

174 Samples/s (3%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

331 Samples/s (3%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

1127 Points (5%)

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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

X-Plane 11.11

2018

12.7 fps + Compare