AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1777MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +855%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

512

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

115W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GA107

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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