Radeon Vega 7 vs 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 rated532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Power efficiencyno data11.38
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCape VerdeCezanne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date21 December 2013 (11 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years 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 cores512448
Core clock speed900 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed930 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate29.7653.20
Floating-point processing power0.9523 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3228

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 x16IGP
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1150 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth73.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 December 2013 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 45 Watt

Vega 7 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 44.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 255 OEM and Radeon Vega 7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 255 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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