AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 20GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

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

More VRAM (20GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB +3481%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

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 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1335 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

512

Shading Units

10240

32

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

628 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

6.6

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