Radeon R9 255 OEM and Radeon RX 560 XT - video card comparison
Radeon R9 255 OEM
Radeon RX 560 XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
Ellesmere
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
930 MHz
1073 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
973 MHz
Floating-point performance
952.3 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
29.76
120.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4600 MHz
6600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
73.6 GB/s
211.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131