AMD Radeon R5 M255 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M255 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M255

• Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
• Around 19% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 775 MHz
• Around 82% higher texture fill rate: 22.56 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
• 3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
• 2.4x better floating-point performance: 721.9 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 80% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4491 vs 2492
• 5.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 14.288 vs 2.692
• Around 3% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 166.596 vs 161.29
• Around 80% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.988 vs 0.55
• Around 70% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 20.164 vs 11.858
• 3.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 66.631 vs 17.753
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1459 vs 1263
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3327
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1459 vs 1263
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3327

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M

• Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 570 vs 534
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 146 vs 135
• Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2479 vs 1715
• Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2479 vs 1715

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M255
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	534 570
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	135 146
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	4491 2492
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	14.288 2.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	166.596 161.29
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.988 0.55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	20.164 11.858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	66.631 17.753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1459 1263
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1715 2479
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3327
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1459 1263
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1715 2479
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3327

Compare specifications (specs)