AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 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 late

Boost Clock930MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +561%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

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GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

38.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G94B

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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