AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1785MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630 +92%

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

TU117

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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