AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation 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 250W)

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 174% (2550MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

12288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +6757%

65.28 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Aug 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1155 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

100

512

Shading Units

12800

32

TMUs

400

16

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

400

-

RT Cores

100

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

448.8 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1020 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

65.28 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

65.28 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1020 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

AD102

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

AD102

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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