AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 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 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 113% (1980MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB 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 RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary +965%

10.14 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1680 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1980 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

40

512

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

126.7 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

316.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.28 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.14 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Navi 10

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTX

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

Board Design

65W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA TITAN V

2

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs Intel H3C XG310

3

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

4

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs Intel Arc A380

5

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

6

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7570

7

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

8

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

9

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

10

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro V420

Related News

1

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

2

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

3

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

4

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

5

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

6

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

7

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

8

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

9

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

10

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future