AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 165% (2460MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +1487%

15.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

May 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

512

Shading Units

3072

32

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 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 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

AD107

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

159 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

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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