AMD Radeon HD 6530M vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6530M 's Advantages

16 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock940MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6530M

0.36 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255 +100%

0.721 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530M

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Radeon R5 M255

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Oct 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

940 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

6

400

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

9.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

721.9 GFLOPS

360.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

45.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Capilano

GPU Name

Topaz

Capilano LE

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

26W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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