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

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon R (Kaveri) Series

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

Codename

Kaveri Spectre

Architecture

GCN

Pipelines

512 - 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

* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

Benchmarks

Power Consumption - FurMark 1.18 GPU Stress Test Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra

100%

min: 93.7 avg: 93.7 (25%) median: 93.7 (25%) max: 93.7 Watt

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Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption (external Monitor) ultra 1920x1080

100%

min: 76.6 avg: 76.6 (21%) median: 76.6 (21%) max: 76.6 Watt

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Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080

100%

min: 6.9 avg: 6.9 (5%) median: 6.9 (5%) max: 6.9 fps

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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen

100%

min: 33.5 avg: 33.5 (6%) median: 33.5 (6%) max: 33.5 fps

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Cinebench R15
Ref. Match 64Bit +

OpenGL 64Bit +

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

3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

100%

min: 508 avg: 508 (4%) median: 508 (4%) max: 508 Points

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3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

100%

min: 567 avg: 567 (6%) median: 567 (6%) max: 567 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

100%

min: 1616 avg: 1616 (4%) median: 1616 (4%) max: 1616 Points

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

100%

min: 1477 avg: 1477 (6%) median: 1477 (6%) max: 1477 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

100%

min: 10341 avg: 10341 (6%) median: 10341 (6%) max: 10341 Points

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

100%

min: 6770 avg: 6770 (14%) median: 6770 (14%) max: 6770 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

100%

min: 91999 avg: 91999 (20%) median: 91999 (20%) max: 91999 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

100%

min: 58792 avg: 58792 (15%) median: 58792 (15%) max: 58792 Points

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

100%

min: 85679 avg: 85679 (11%) median: 85679 (11%) max: 85679 Points

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

100%

min: 17.6 avg: 17.6 (16%) median: 17.6 (16%) max: 17.6 fps

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

100%

min: 19.7 avg: 19.7 (7%) median: 19.7 (7%) max: 19.7 fps

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

100%

min: 1495 avg: 1495 (7%) median: 1495 (7%) max: 1495 Points

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

100%

min: 266 avg: 266 (5%) median: 266 (5%) max: 266 Samples/s

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

100%

min: 470 avg: 470 (5%) median: 470 (5%) max: 470 Samples/s

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

100%

min: 2302 avg: 2302 (5%) median: 2302 (5%) max: 2302 points

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon HD 8790M -5%

Intel Iris Graphics 540 -5%

AMD Radeon R6 M255DX -5%

AMD Radeon R7 M445 -4%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M -4%

AMD Radeon R7 M440 -2%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti -1%

NVIDIA GeForce 840M -1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M 0%

AMD Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

AMD FirePro W4170M 1%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 1%

AMD Radeon 530 1%

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1%

NVIDIA Quadro M500M 2%

AMD Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8750M Dual Graphics 2%

AMD Radeon HD 8850M 3%

NVIDIA Quadro K2100M 4%

AMD Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics 4%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop) 1815%

100%

3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

100%

min: 2444 avg: 2444 (9%) median: 2444 (9%) max: 2444 points

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3DMark Vantage
P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

100%

min: 14908 avg: 14908 (32%) median: 14908 (32%) max: 14908 Points

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3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

100%

min: 29153 avg: 29153 (16%) median: 29153 (16%) max: 29153 Points

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

100%

min: 26.8 avg: 26.8 (12%) median: 26.8 (12%) max: 26.8 fps

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SPECviewperf 12
Solidworks (sw-03) 1900x1060 +

Siemens NX (snx-02) 1900x1060 +

Showcase (showcase-01) 1900x1060 +

Medical (medical-01) 1900x1060 +

Maya (maya-04) 1900x1060 +

Energy (energy-01) 1900x1060 +

Creo (creo-01) 1900x1060 +

Catia (catia-04) 1900x1060 +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card

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.