NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

2486% significantly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

1823% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5013 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

1254% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

1821% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4658 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

1650% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4925 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

925 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

940 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

2150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

1034% significantly higher pixel rate

7.52 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

782% significantly higher texture rate

22.56 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

833% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

366% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

429th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.3

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R5 M255 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 M255 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the Radeon R5 M255.