AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1226MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +361%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

28

-

512

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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