Radeon R9 255 OEM and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon R9 255 OEM
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
February 2024
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
930 MHz
1470 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
952.3 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
70 Watt
Texture fill rate
29.76
105.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
4600 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
73.6 GB/s
168.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3