Broadcom VideoCore VII vs Radeon R5 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	no data
GPU code name	Spectre SL	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	17 September 2014 (10 years ago)	no data (2024 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 cores	256	no data
Core clock speed	497 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	720 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,410 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.952	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.2545 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	no data
TMUs	16	no 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).

Interface	IGP	no data
Width	IGP	no 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 type	System Shared	no data
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	no data
Memory bus width	System Shared	no data
Memory clock speed	System Shared	no data
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors

No outputs

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	no data
Shader Model	6.0	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

28 nm

16 nm

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