Cape Verde vs Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking769not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameKaveri SpectreCape Verde
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 January 2014 (10 years ago)no data

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 cores512640
Core clock speed720 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data40

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.

Shared memory+no data

API compatibility

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


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AMD Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)
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