AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

The AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo) is an integrated graphics card in the low-end Carrizo APUs. At launch in mid 2015 the R6 was used in the AMD A10-8700P and A8-8600P with 384 GCN shaders and 720 resp. 800 MHz clock rate (Boost?). Depending on the configured TDP (ranging from 12 to 35 Watt) and used main memory (up to DDR3-2133 in dual channel mode supported) the performance can differ greatly.
Architecture and Features
The Radeon R6 is using the third generation GCN architecture (sometimes also called GCN 1.2) similar to the desktop Tonga chip. Therefore, it offers DirectX 12 (FL 12_0) hardware support and advanced color compression that leads to 5-7% improvement in games. Furthermore, the shaders can be used with Mantle, OpenGL and OpenCL. HSA 1.0 is supported to easily run code on CPU and GPU cores together.
The improved video decoder UVD 6 (Unified Video Decoder) is now able to decode HVEC / H.265 in up 4K in hardware. Furthermore, the VCE (Video Codec Engine) was improved for faster transcodes of H.264.
More information on architecture and features of the Carrizo chips can be found in our launch article.
Performance
The gaming performance of the integrated R6 depends on the configured TDP (12 - 35 Watt) of the chip. The difference from a 15 Watt A8 to a 35 Watt A10 e.g. can be 49% (3DMark 11, see scores below). Demanding games like Evolve or Far Cry 4 will struggle to achieve fluent frame rates. However, less demanding games like Counter-Strike: GO may even run in high detail settings (see the Kaveri R7 GPU for benchmarks).
Power Consumption
Depending on the configured TDP the chip may be used in thin and light machines (12 - 20 Watt range) or normal sized laptops (35 Watt TDP).
Manufacturer | AMD |
Radeon R (Carrizo) Series | |
Codename | Carrizo |
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 | 2410 Million |
technology | 28 nm |
Features | UVD 6, VCE |
Notebook Size | medium sized |
Date of Announcement | 04.06.2015 |
Benchmarks
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy
4.7 pt (5%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
300 Points (2%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
274 Points (1%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
min: 42842 avg: 52058 median: 53702.5 (8%) max: 57983 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Graphics
min: 26331 avg: 33965 median: 35055 (5%) max: 39418 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 3248 avg: 3864 median: 3524 (5%) max: 4564 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
min: 4033 avg: 5564 median: 4717 (2%) max: 7296 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
min: 666 avg: 845 median: 842 (2%) max: 1100 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
min: 764 avg: 913 median: 909 (2%) max: 1068 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Graphics
min: 37735 avg: 45682 median: 44503 (6%) max: 54461 Points
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 1297 avg: 1582 median: 1550 (4%) max: 2359 Points
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 1288 avg: 1452 median: 1437.5 (2%) max: 1767 Points
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 1%
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3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
min: 4739 avg: 4830 median: 4830 (5%) max: 4921 Points
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3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
min: 4334 avg: 4415 median: 4414.5 (4%) max: 4495 Points
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 -1%
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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +min: 5207 avg: 6404 median: 6896 (13%) max: 7109 Points
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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 4055 avg: 4512 median: 4507 (21%) max: 5053 points
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Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 14.45 avg: 18.5 median: 17.8 (8%) max: 24.08 fps
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Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 19.23 avg: 23.1 median: 22.5 (6%) max: 28.7 fps
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Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
98 % (98%)
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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 +GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
88.4 fps (1%)
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GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16
59.7 fps (2%)
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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
29.4 fps (3%)
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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan
28.1 fps (8%)
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
min: 130 avg: 138 median: 137.5 (1%) max: 145 Samples/s
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
min: 290 avg: 302 median: 301.5 (1%) max: 313 Samples/s
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ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
min: 778 avg: 883 median: 918 (2%) max: 953 points
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* 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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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8.4 [X] HP Pavilion 15 (A10-8700P, Single-Channel)AMD A10-8700P 1.8GHz
Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
10.6 [X] HP Pavilion 15-ab052ngAMD A10-8700P 1.8GHz
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