AMD Radeon R5 Graphics vs AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 Graphics and AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1363 vs 802
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1915 vs 1597
  • Around 70% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1363 vs 802
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1915 vs 1597
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 31 May 2016 vs 14 June 2011
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1363 vs 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1915 vs 1597
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1363 vs 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1915 vs 1597

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

  • Around 88% higher pipelines: 480 vs 256
Pipelines 480 vs 256

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1363
802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1915
1597
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1363
802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1915
1597
Name AMD Radeon R5 Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
Geekbench - OpenCL 2899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.166
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 119.568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 12.649
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 42.459
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1363 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1915 1597
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1363 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1915 1597

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R5 Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Terascale 2
Code name Wani
Launch date 31 May 2016 14 June 2011
Place in performance rating 1555 1525
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Core clock speed 200 MHz
Floating-point performance 388.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 256 480
Texture fill rate 12.13 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt
Transistor count 2,410 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 11
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Memory type System Shared
Shared memory 0