AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1620MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +684%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

512

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

175W

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

TU106-400A-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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