AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2 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

204 points

Identical

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

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5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5013 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3690 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5527 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3447 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4658 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3630 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4925 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3735 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

925 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

902 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

940 MHz

1253 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

16 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.52 Gigapixels/s

168% significantly higher pixel rate

2.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.56 Gigatexels/s

101% significantly higher texture rate

11.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

428th of 586

433rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

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 GT 730 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 730 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 M255 in our tests.

The Radeon R5 M255 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. Despite this, the GeForce GT 730 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon R5 M255 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 730 over the Radeon R5 M255.