AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R5 A255

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

AMD Radeon R5 A255

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A255 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1077MHz vs 940MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +588%

4.963 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A255

0.721 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

VS

Radeon R5 A255

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

940 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

6

-

2304

Shading Units

384

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

34.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Topaz

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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