AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950M

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AMD Radeon R5 M255

AMD Radeon HD 7950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950M 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 6 months late

Boost Clock940MHz

AMD Radeon HD 7950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950M +148%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

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Radeon HD 7950M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2012

Gem System

Generation

London

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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

20

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

Wimbledon PRO

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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