Radeon R5 M255 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded - video card comparison
Radeon R5 M255
Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name
Topaz Pro / Sun
Raven
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
April 2018
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
940 MHz
1101 MHz
Compute units
5
-
Core clock speed
940 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
4,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
512
Power consumption (TDP)
-
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
22.56
35.23
Memory type
DDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
64 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
+
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-