Arc A580 vs Radeon R9 255 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated182
Place by popularitynot in top-100100
Power efficiencyno data12.45
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameCape VerdeDG2-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 December 2013 (10 years ago)10 October 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5123072
Core clock speed900 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speed930 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate29.76384.0
Floating-point processing power0.9523 TFLOPS12.29 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs32192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth73.6 GB/s512.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 December 2013 10 October 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 175 Watt

R9 255 OEM has 169.2% lower power consumption.

Arc A580, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 255 OEM and Arc A580. We've got no test results to judge.


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