Radeon R9 255 OEM and GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB - video card comparison
Radeon R9 255 OEM
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
GP107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
May 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
930 MHz
1518 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
1392 MHz
Floating-point performance
952.3 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
3,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
768
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
29.76
72.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
4600 MHz
7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
73.6 GB/s
84.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131