NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 129% (2130MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 70W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +1160%

12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Dec 2013

Quadro Ada

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620MHz

Base Clock

900MHz

2130MHz

Boost Clock

930MHz

2000MHz

Memory Clock

1150MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60 GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

2816

Shading Units

512

88

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

88

Tensor Cores

-

22

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12MB

L2 Cache

256KB

Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18,900 million

Transistors

1,500 million

159mm²

Die Size

123mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

65W

250W

Suggested PSU

250W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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