AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and AMD Radeon R5 M255 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 RX Vega 6

AMD Radeon R5 M255

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 17% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 940 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 320 vs 133
Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1015 vs 541

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 12 October 2014
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 940 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	320 vs 133
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015 vs 541

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 M255

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

133

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

541

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R5 M255
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	133
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	541
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 RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R5 M255
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	GCN 3.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Topaz
Launch date	7 January 2018	12 October 2014
Place in performance rating	482	1365
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	940 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	384
Transistor count	4500 million	3,100 million
Compute units		5
Core clock speed		925 MHz
Floating-point performance		721.9 gflops
Pipelines		320
Texture fill rate		22.56 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenCL	2.0	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Mantle
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		16 GB/s
Memory bus width		64 bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
HD3D
Powerplay
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore