AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA Quadro K2100M

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K2100M 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

278 points

36% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

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

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3163 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5527 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3644 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4658 points

0.67% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4627 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4925 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

925 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

654 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

48.13 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.52 Gigapixels/s

8.00 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.56 Gigatexels/s

32.02 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

576

49% significantly more shading units

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

427th of 586

387th 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 K2100M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K2100M GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 M255 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R5 M255 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon R5 M255 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K2100M over the Radeon R5 M255.