Radeon RX Vega 2 vs R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1093not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameBeemaVega Raven Ridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 April 2014 (10 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128128
Boost clock speed850 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt

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 bus width64 Bitno data
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

RX Vega 2 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)
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