AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs Intel Arc A380

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

Intel Arc A380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 6GB VRAM Arc A380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Intel Arc A380 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 120% (2050MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (186.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

Arc A380 +340%

4.198 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

Arc A380

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 3)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2050 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

186.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

128

-

RT Cores

8

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.60 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.397 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.198 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1050 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

DG2-128

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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