Radeon R5 M255: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.38% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon R5 M255 sales 1 May 2014. This is a GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon R5 M255: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 961 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN (2011−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Topaz Pro / Sun | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 May 2014 (9 years ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon R5 M255's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R5 M255's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 320 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Compute units | 5 | |
| Core clock speed | 940 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 940 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 1,550 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Texture fill rate | 22.56 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 721.9 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon R5 M255's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 x8 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R5 M255: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R5 M255. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | |
| Eyefinity | + |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R5 M255. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| AppAcceleration | + | |
| Enduro | - | |
| HD3D | + | |
| PowerTune | + | |
| DualGraphics | 1 | |
| TrueAudio | - | |
| ZeroCore | + | |
| Switchable graphics | 1 |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R5 M255, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | Not Listed | |
| Mantle | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R5 M255. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 medical-01
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
Benchmark coverage: 3%
SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Maya
This part of SPECviewperf 12 workstation benchmark uses Autodesk Maya 13 engine to render a superhero energy plant static scene consisting of more than 700 thousand polygons, in six different modes.
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Catia
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Creo
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Medical
Benchmark coverage: 2%
SPECviewperf 12 - Energy
Benchmark coverage: 2%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon R5 M255 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 21 | |
| Full HD | 13 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 9−10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
| Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 1−2 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 7−8 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 9−10 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
| Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 1−2 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 7−8 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 4 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 3 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 3−4 | |
| Hitman 3 | 4−5 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 5−6 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 1−2 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 7−8 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon R5 M255 is GeForce GT 630M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R5 M255:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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