AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +149%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

0.381 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 720 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.972 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.89 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

381.3 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

15.89 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GK107

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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