AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA Quadro K1100M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 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

22% slightly better overall score

167 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

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

2 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5013 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2245 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5527 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2664 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4658 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3067 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4925 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

2884 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

925 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

716 MHz

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

44.8 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.52 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

5.65 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.56 Gigatexels/s

22.59 Gigatexels/s

0.13% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly 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

432nd of 586

453rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

Radeon R5 M255 vs Quadro K1100M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 M255 beats the Quadro K1100M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R5 M255 is faster than the Quadro K1100M.