AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce 920MX

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 920MX, 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

204 points

213 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5013 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4210 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5527 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3723 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4658 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4072 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4925 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3591 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

925 MHz

965 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

940 MHz

993 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

16 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.52 Gigapixels/s

7.94 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.56 Gigatexels/s

23.83 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

49% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 586

415th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2016 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.6

Radeon R5 M255 vs GeForce 920MX comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce 920MX beats the Radeon R5 M255 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce 920MX has a slightly 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 GeForce 920MX also 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce 920MX is faster than the Radeon R5 M255.