AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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AMD Radeon R5 M255 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (940MHz vs 758MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M +182%

2.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

940 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1344

24

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GK104

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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