AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 22% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 736 MHz
• Around 78% higher pipelines: 512 vs 288
• Around 12% better floating-point performance: 952.3 gflops vs 847.9 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 150 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 3828 MHz
• Around 49% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 40722 vs 27378
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3112 vs 2879
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3112 vs 2879
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3346 vs 3322
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3346 vs 3322

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

• Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 35.3 GTexel / s vs 29.76 GTexel / s
• Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 447 vs 394
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1572 vs 1457
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3372 vs 3168
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3372 vs 3168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	394 447
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1457 1572
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	40722 27378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3112 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3112 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3168 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3168 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3346 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3346 3322

Compare specifications (specs)