AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 79% (1665MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +1601%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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

1410 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

512

Shading Units

4864

32

TMUs

152

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA104-202-A1

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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