AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R5 M255

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1245MHz vs 940MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

5760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +2022%

15.3 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

940 MHz

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

384

Shading Units

6144

24

TMUs

192

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

GA104

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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