AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 184W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1650MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +654%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

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GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

34

512

Shading Units

2176

32

TMUs

136

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

184W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

TU106

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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