NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 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 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 134% (2175MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +2707%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Dec 2013

Quadro Ada

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

280.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

6144

Shading Units

512

192

TMUs

32

80

ROPs

16

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

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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