Radeon HD 8670A vs R6 (Carrizo)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1040not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.03no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameCarrizoSun
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2015 (10 years ago)2 February 2013 (12 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 cores384320
Core clock speedno data600 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.384 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data20
L1 Cacheno data80 KB
L2 Cacheno data128 KB

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataMXM-A (3.0)

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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (5.1)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan-1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 2 February 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 45 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 2 years, and 275% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and Radeon HD 8670A. We've got no test results to judge.

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