Radeon Vega 7 vs R7 (Bristol Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking861not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10025
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.24no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2 (2015−2016)GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code nameBristol RidgeCezanne
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Current price$80 $583

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

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 cores512448
Boost clock speed900 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data53.20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) and Radeon Vega 7 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64/128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkanno data1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 45 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) and Radeon Vega 7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 7 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge)
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