AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1238%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GA104

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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