AMD Radeon R7 M520 vs AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M520 and AMD Radeon R6 M255DX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R7 M520

AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M520

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 780 MHz
Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17889 vs 17123

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 7 January 2014
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 780 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889 vs 17123

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Around 80% higher pipelines: 576 vs 320

Pipelines	576 vs 320

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M520
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R6 M255DX

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17889

17123

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M520	AMD Radeon R6 M255DX
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889	17123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1927
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1927
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3563
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3563
PassMark - G2D Mark		116
PassMark - G3D Mark		605

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M520	AMD Radeon R6 M255DX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Oland	Jet
Launch date	18 April 2017	7 January 2014
Place in performance rating	1188	1191
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	780 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	576
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,040 million
Boost clock speed		855 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory		1
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro
Powerplay