AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 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 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 171% (2520MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti +2339%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

512

Shading Units

4608

32

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GB206

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

1.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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