AMD Radeon R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

The AMD Radeon R7 Graphics with 384 Shaders is integrated in the AMD Desktop Kaveri APUs AMD A10-7700K, A8-7650K and A8-7600. It is an integrated GPU without dedicated graphics memory and is based on the GCN 1.1 (or 2.0) architecture of the Hawaii desktop graphics cards (e.g. R9 290). However, it was altered for HSA use in the APU.

In the AMD A10-7700K, A8-7650K and 7600, the graphics card offers 384 of the 512 shader cores (6 of the 8 compute cores) with a maximum core clock of 720 MHz. Without 3D load, the R7 clocks at 351 MHz. It supports DirectX 12 (FL 12_0) in hardware, which is a big advantage over some GPUs from the competition (Intel Haswell e.g. 11.1, Nvidia Kepler and Maxwell v1 11.0).

The gaming performance in our tests was quite similar to the Radeon R7 in the A10-7850K. The missing shaders did not hurt in most of the gaming tests, as the memory bandwidth limits the performance. Compared to the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 (in the Schenker S413), the Radeon R7 is positioned on the same level or slightly below on average. Many current games as of 2014 can be played fluently in medium resolutions and detail settings.

Test system: Asus A88XM-PLUS mainboard, 16 GB DDR3-2133 AMD Gamer memory

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon R (Kaveri) Series

Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) (compare)	512 @ 720 MHz
Radeon R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)	384 @ 720 MHz
Radeon R7 (Kaveri) (compare)	512 @ 553 - 686 (Boost) MHz	64/128 Bit
Radeon R6 (Kaveri) (compare)	384 @ 533 - 654 (Boost) MHz	64/128 Bit
Radeon R5 (Kaveri) (compare)	256 @ 514 - 626 (Boost) MHz	64/128 Bit
Radeon R4 (Kaveri) (compare)	192 @ 533 MHz	64/128 Bit

Codename

Kaveri Spectre

Architecture

GCN

Pipelines

384 - unified

Core Speed

720 MHz

Shared Memory

yes

DirectX

DirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.2

technology

28 nm

Features

HSA, OpenCL 2.0, DirectCompute 5.0

Date of Announcement

14.01.2014

CPU		GPU Base Speed	GPU Boost / Turbo
AMD A10-7700K	4 x 3400 MHz, 95 W	720 MHz	? MHz
AMD A8-7650K	4 x 3300 MHz, 95 W	351 MHz	720 MHz
min. - max.		351 - 720 MHz	720 - 720 MHz

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

min: 89776 avg: 89954 median: 89954 (19%) max: 90132 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

min: 56057 avg: 56941 median: 56941 (8%) max: 57825 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

min: 6201 avg: 6340.5 median: 6340.5 (13%) max: 6480 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

min: 9511 avg: 9650.5 median: 9650.5 (5%) max: 9790 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

min: 1274 avg: 1302 median: 1302 (5%) max: 1330 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

min: 1374 avg: 1405.5 median: 1405.5 (3%) max: 1437 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

min: 83946 avg: 83978.5 median: 83978.5 (11%) max: 84011 Points

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

min: 2151 avg: 2152 median: 2152 (7%) max: 2153 points

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

min: 1987 avg: 1987.5 median: 1987.5 (4%) max: 1988 points

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon R7 M260X -4%

AMD Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) -4%

Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 -4%

AMD Radeon R7 M265 -3%

AMD Radeon HD 8770M -3%

AMD Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics -2%

NVIDIA GeForce 830M -1%

AMD FirePro M4000 0%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 0%

AMD Radeon R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 1%

AMD Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8570M Dual Graphics 1%

AMD Radeon R7 M360 1%

AMD Radeon HD 7750M 5%

NVIDIA Quadro 4000M 5%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 6%

AMD Radeon HD 7770M 6%

AMD Radeon HD 7660G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics 7%

AMD Radeon R7 M460 8%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 2048%

100%

3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

28651 Points (16%)

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3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

16508 Points (35%)

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Heaven 3.0 - DX 11, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

17.8 fps (7%)

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - OpenGL, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

17.6 fps (10%)

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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024

24.5 fps (11%)

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Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

min: 218 avg: 220.5 median: 220.5 (4%) max: 223 Samples/s

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

min: 381 avg: 388.5 median: 388.5 (4%) max: 396 Samples/s

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

min: 1133 avg: 1142.5 median: 1142.5 (5%) max: 1152 Points

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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.