AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient and AMD Radeon R5 M255 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1011 MHz vs 940 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Launch date 23 April 2018 vs 12 October 2014
Boost clock speed 1011 MHz vs 940 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M255

  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 M255

Name AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient AMD Radeon R5 M255
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 920
PassMark - G3D Mark 527
PassMark - G2D Mark 136
Geekbench - OpenCL 4475
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 Vega 6 Mobile Efficient AMD Radeon R5 M255

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Raven Topaz
Launch date 23 April 2018 12 October 2014
Place in performance rating 1529 1363
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1011 MHz 940 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million 3,100 million
Compute units 5
Floating-point performance 721.9 gflops
Pipelines 320
Texture fill rate 22.56 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus support PCIe 3.0 x8

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed

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