AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 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 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +129%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 545

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 545

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

512

Shading Units

144

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

70W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF116

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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