Radeon R5 430 OEM vs R7 (Kaveri)

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Aggregate performance score

R7 (Kaveri)
2014
1.49

R5 430 OEM outperforms R7 (Kaveri) by an impressive 79% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking936774
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.17no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameKaveriOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2014 (10 years ago)30 June 2016 (7 years ago)
Current price$135 no data

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 cores512384
Core clock speed553 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed686 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data18.72
Floating-point performanceno data599.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R7 (Kaveri) and Radeon R5 430 OEM 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 dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
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 dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data4600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data36.8 GB/s
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 data1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno data1.2.131

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 HD14
−71.4%
24−27
+71.4%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Far Cry 5 7−8
−71.4%
12−14
+71.4%
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−66.7%
10−11
+66.7%
Hitman 3 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
−61.5%
21−24
+61.5%
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−66.7%
5−6
+66.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−60%
16−18
+60%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Far Cry 5 7−8
−71.4%
12−14
+71.4%
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−66.7%
10−11
+66.7%
Hitman 3 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
−61.5%
21−24
+61.5%
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−66.7%
5−6
+66.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−60%
16−18
+60%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8
−75%
14−16
+75%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Far Cry 5 7−8
−71.4%
12−14
+71.4%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−66.7%
10−11
+66.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
−61.5%
21−24
+61.5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−66.7%
5−6
+66.7%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 0−1 0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%
Forza Horizon 4 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 5−6
−60%
8−9
+60%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry 5 6−7
−66.7%
10−11
+66.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 0−1 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%
Metro Exodus 4−5
−75%
7−8
+75%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−66.7%
5−6
+66.7%

This is how R7 (Kaveri) and R5 430 OEM compete in popular games:

  • R5 430 OEM is 71% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.49 2.67
Recency 4 June 2014 30 June 2016

The Radeon R5 430 OEM is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R7 (Kaveri) in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Kaveri) is a notebook card while Radeon R5 430 OEM is a desktop one.


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