AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro W5700X AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (2040MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 205W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5700X +996%

10.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Dec 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1243 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

130.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

326.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

20.89 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

652.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

205W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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