AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD FirePro S10000

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM AMD FirePro S10000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (950MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 +257%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

FirePro S10000

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Nov 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

28

512

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

Zaphod

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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