AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA NVS 310

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA NVS 310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 512MB VRAM NVS 310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 310 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +852%

0.952 TFLOPS

NVS 310

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

NVS 310

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

512

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

20W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GF119

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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