AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

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AMD Radeon R5 M255 NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock940MHz

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255 +200%

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GT

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

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GeForce 9800M GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

940 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

G92

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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