AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs AMD Radeon R5 M330

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 M330 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

204 points
10% slightly better overall score
185 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
Identical
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
Identical
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
Identical
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5013 points
5430 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5527 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4983 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4658 points
5844 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4925 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4573 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

925 MHz
955 MHz
3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

940 MHz
1030 MHz
9% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

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
8.24 Gigapixels/s
9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.56 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate
20.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
20% slightly more shading units
320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
20% slightly more texture mapping units
20

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
Identical
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 586
439th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series
Radeon R5 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3
4.3

Radeon R5 M255 vs Radeon R5 M330 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 M255 beats the Radeon R5 M330 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon R5 M330 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 Radeon R5 M330 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R5 M255 is better than the Radeon R5 M330.

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