Radeon HD 7790 and Radeon R9 255 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7790
Radeon R9 255 OEM
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Bonaire
Cape Verde
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2013
December 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
930 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,792 gflops
952.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
512
Power consumption (TDP)
85 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
56.00
29.76
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
73.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131