Intel Iris 540 vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

Compare Intel Iris 540 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

213 points

4% slightly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6252 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5013 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6697 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6277 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4658 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6234 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4925 points

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

1000 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

940 MHz

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s

7.52 Gigapixels/s

25% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s

112% significantly higher texture rate

22.56 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

417th of 586

429th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

Iris 540 vs Radeon R5 M255 comparison

For gaming, the Iris 540 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 M255 in our tests.

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. Despite this, the Iris 540 has a slightly 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris 540 over the Radeon R5 M255.