AMD Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

The AMD Radeon R7 Graphics width 512 Cores is an integrated GPU in the AMD A10-7850K, A10-7800 and A10 PRO-7850B Kaveri Desktop APUs. 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 the top line A10 Kaveri Desktop APUs, the graphics card offers 512 shader cores (8 compute cores) with a maximum core clock of 720 MHz. The similar named AMD Radeon R7 in the A10-7700K, A8-7650K and A8-7600 offers only 384 Shaders but is in games only slightly slower.

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 slightly faster than the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 (in the Schenker S413). Depending on the game either one of the GPUs lead, but all in all the R7 was faster in two more games (in March 2014). In most cases, the Radeon R7 is sufficient for a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and medium settings.

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

Radeon R (Kaveri) Series Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) 512 @ 0.72 GHz Radeon R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) 384 @ 0.72 GHz Radeon R7 (Kaveri) 512 @ 0.55 - 0.69 GHz 64/128 Bit Radeon R6 (Kaveri) 384 @ 0.53 - 0.65 GHz 64/128 Bit Radeon R5 (Kaveri) 256 @ 0.51 - 0.63 GHz 64/128 Bit Radeon R4 (Kaveri) 192 @ 0.53 GHz 64/128 Bit
Codename	Kaveri Spectre
Architecture	GCN
Pipelines	512 - unified
Core Speed	720 MHz
Shared Memory	yes
API	DirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.2, OpenGL 4.3
technology	28 nm
Features	HSA, OpenCL 2.0, DirectCompute 5.0
Date of Announcement	14.01.2014

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