AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

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AMD Radeon R5 M255

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8830M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (940MHz vs 625MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8830M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8830M +10%

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

VS

Radeon HD 8830M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

940 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

721.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

45.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

Venus

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

Venus LE (216-0846030)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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