AMD Radeon R5 A255 vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A255 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 A255 's Advantages

Boost Clock940MHz

AMD Radeon R9 M295X 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A255

0.721 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X +310%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A255

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Radeon R9 M295X

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2014

All-In-One

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

940 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

32

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

Amethyst

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

5 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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