NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1770MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +2184%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

512

192

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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