AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

AMD Radeon R5 M255

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (940MHz vs 700MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255 +34%

0.721 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

Radeon R5 M255

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2014

Solar System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

700 MHz

Boost Clock

940 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

6

-

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

721.9 GFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Topaz

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5

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