Radeon R9 255 OEM and GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon R9 255 OEM

GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

N18E-G2R

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

December 2013

April 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

930 MHz

1155 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

930 MHz

Floating-point performance

952.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

13,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

29.76

184.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4600 MHz

11000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

73.6 GB/s

352.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.140

VR Ready