Radeon R9 255 OEM and GeForce GTX 745 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R9 255 OEM
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
February 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
930 MHz
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
1033 MHz
Floating-point performance
952.3 gflops
793.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
384
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
55 Watt
Texture fill rate
29.76
24.79
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4600 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
73.6 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
5.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126