AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1178MHz vs 930MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +153%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GM206

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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