AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon R5 M255

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1531MHz vs 940MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230 +8%

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Feb 2019

Gem System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

940 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

256

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GP108

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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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