AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M255 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

593 points

190% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

13 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

10 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

12 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

5 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5013 points

8763 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5527 points

8956 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4658 points

9296 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4925 points

11397 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

925 MHz

208% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

940 MHz

2000 MHz

112% significantly higher boost clock speed

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.52 Gigapixels/s

16 Gigapixels/s

112% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.56 Gigatexels/s

64 Gigatexels/s

183% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

512

33% slightly more shading units

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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

427th of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2021 January

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 Radeon Vega 8 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon Vega 8 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 M255 in gaming.

The Radeon R5 M255 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon Vega 8 is better than the Radeon R5 M255.