Radeon RX 5800 vs R7 (Bristol Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking896not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2 (2016)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBristol RidgeNavi 23
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 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 cores5123072
Boost clock speed900 MHz1735 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rateno data333.1
Floating-point processing powerno data10.66 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data192

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 dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data14000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12.0 (12_1)
OpenGLno data4.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 275 Watt

R7 (Bristol Ridge) has 2191.7% lower power consumption.

RX 5800, on the other hand, has a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) and Radeon RX 5800. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5800 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge)
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