NVIDIA NVS 300 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

NVIDIA NVS 300

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 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 NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 65W)

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM +2341%

0.952 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Dec 2013

NVS

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

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

18W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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