AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI 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 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +2015%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Aug 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.80 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G96C

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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