Radeon R9 255 OEM and C89 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 255 OEM

C89

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

C89

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2013

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

930 MHz

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Core clock speed

900 MHz

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Floating-point performance

952.3 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

486 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

48

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

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Texture fill rate

29.76

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

4600 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

73.6 GB/s

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4