AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X 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 205W)

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (2040MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X +996%

10.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro W5700X

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1243 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2040 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

40

-

512

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

130.6 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

326.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.89 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.44 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

652.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

205W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Navi 10

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

2

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1050 AGP

3

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

4

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

5

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

6

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM

7

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

8

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

9

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

10

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3750

Related News

1

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

2

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

3

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

4

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

5

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

6

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

7

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

8

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

9

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

10

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim