Radeon R5 (Carrizo) vs 860M

Radeon 860M Radeon 880M Radeon 890M Radeon 8050S Radeon 8060S
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Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) Radeon R5 (Carrizo) Radeon R5 (Kaveri) Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon 860M and Radeon R5 (Carrizo), covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

Radeon 860M
2025
15 Watt
10.92
+550%

860M outperforms R5 (Carrizo) by a whopping 550% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking427940
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency54.363.58
ArchitectureRDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code nameStrix PointCarrizo
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateMarch 2025 (recently)4 June 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512256
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed3000 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors34,000 million2410 Million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt12-35 Watt
Texture fill rate96.00no data
Floating-point processing power3.072 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs32no data
Ray Tracing Cores8no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64/128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
Shared memory++

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.3-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD25
+733%
3−4
−733%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2 0−1 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Counter-Strike 2 0−1 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Far Cry 5 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Fortnite 7−8
+0%
7−8
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%
Forza Horizon 5 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 10−11
+0%
10−11
+0%
Valorant 35−40
+0%
35−40
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Counter-Strike 2 0−1 0−1
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 35−40
+0%
35−40
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Dota 2 20−22
+0%
20−22
+0%
Far Cry 5 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Fortnite 7−8
+0%
7−8
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%
Forza Horizon 5 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Grand Theft Auto V 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%
Metro Exodus 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 10−11
+0%
10−11
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8−9
+0%
8−9
+0%
Valorant 35−40
+0%
35−40
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Dota 2 20−22
+0%
20−22
+0%
Far Cry 5 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 10−11
+0%
10−11
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8−9
+0%
8−9
+0%
Valorant 35−40
+0%
35−40
+0%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 7−8
+0%
7−8
+0%

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 12−14
+0%
12−14
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 16−18
+0%
16−18
+0%
Valorant 10−12
+0%
10−12
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Far Cry 5 0−1 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Hogwarts Legacy 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

4K
High Preset

Grand Theft Auto V 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
Valorant 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 0−1
Dota 2 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Far Cry 5 0−1 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

This is how Radeon 860M and R5 (Carrizo) compete in popular games:

  • Radeon 860M is 733% faster in 1080p

All in all, in popular games:

  • there's a draw in 49 tests (100%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score 10.92 1.68
Chip lithography 4 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 12 Watt

Radeon 860M has a 550% higher aggregate performance score, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

R5 (Carrizo), on the other hand, has 25% lower power consumption.

The Radeon 860M is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 (Carrizo) in performance tests.

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