Intel HD 515 vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

Compare Intel HD 515 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

74 points

204 points

175% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

4 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

1 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3332 points

5013 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3491 points

5527 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2836 points

4658 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3403 points

4925 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

925 MHz

208% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

800 MHz

940 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.4 Gigapixels/s

7.52 Gigapixels/s

213% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

19.2 Gigatexels/s

22.56 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

524th of 586

432nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 September

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.3

HD 515 vs Radeon R5 M255 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R5 M255 GPU is faster than the HD 515 in gaming.

The Radeon R5 M255 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon R5 M255 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R5 M255 is faster than the HD 515.