AMD Radeon R5 A255: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon R5 A255 sales on 2014. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 3.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GB/s are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon R5 A255: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTopaz
Market segmentDesktop
Release date2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon R5 A255's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R5 A255's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed925 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed940 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors1,550 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate22.56of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs8of 192 (GRID A100A)
TMUs24of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R5 A255 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R5 A255: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed4 GB/sof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R5 A255. 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon R5 A255, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.1
Vulkan1.2.170

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R5 A255. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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