AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 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 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 169% (2505MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

17664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +9465%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

142

512

Shading Units

18176

32

TMUs

568

16

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

6.8

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