AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 3 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

296 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +77%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

512

Shading Units

216

32

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GT200

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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