AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 166% (2475MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +2961%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

512

Shading Units

5888

32

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

AD104

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

295 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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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