AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M255 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R5 M255

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M255

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.9x more pipelines: 320 vs 112
2.6x better floating-point performance: 721.9 gflops vs 280 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 541 vs 454
Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 133 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 October 2014 vs 15 July 2008
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 112
Floating-point performance	721.9 gflops vs 280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	541 vs 454
PassMark - G2D Mark	133 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 22.56 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 22.56 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M255
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

541

454

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

133

Name	AMD Radeon R5 M255	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	541	454
PassMark - G2D Mark	133	89
Geekbench - OpenCL	4720
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	14.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	166.596
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	20.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	66.631
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1459
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1459
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 M255	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Topaz	G92
Design	AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
Launch date	12 October 2014	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1365	1364
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$328.50
Price now		$328.50
Value for money (0-100)		2.78
Technical info
Boost clock speed	940 MHz
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	925 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	721.9 gflops	280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	320	112
Texture fill rate	22.56 GTexel / s	28 GTexel / s
Transistor count	3,100 million	754 million
CUDA cores per GPU		112
Gigaflops		420
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
Mantle
OpenCL	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
HD3D
Powerplay
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
SLI