R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) vs R7 A265

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Combined performance score

R7 A265
2.56

R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) outperforms R7 A265 by 6% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking783763
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.06no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code nameOpalKaveri Spectre
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date9 January 2014 (10 years old)14 January 2014 (10 years old)
Current price$324 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

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 cores384384
Core clock speed725 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Texture fill rate19.80no data
Floating-point performance633.6 gflopsno data

Size and 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8no data

Memory

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 typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131no data

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 HD12−14
−16.7%
14
+16.7%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 2.56 2.72

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 A265 and Radeon R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop). The differences in performance seem too small.


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