AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +27%

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Feb 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

10

-

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

80W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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