AMD Radeon R5 A255 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R5 A255 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A255 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1379MHz vs 940MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +683%

5.648 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A255

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1215 MHz

940 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.26 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

88.26 GFLOPS

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.648 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

176.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GP104

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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