NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 SE and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (91.87GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 SE

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM +12%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 SE

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

957 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

91.87GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.832 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

35.33 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

847.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

70.66 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF114-200-KB-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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