Radeon R9 255 OEM and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison
Radeon R9 255 OEM
GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
930 MHz
1695 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
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Floating-point performance
952.3 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
18,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
29.76
325.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4600 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
73.6 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
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DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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