10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

All games with system requirements of DirectX 11 or lower are met by this card.

How many years will the Radeon R9 255 (OEM) graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon R9 255 (OEM) in your PC? Its upgrade time for the Radeon R9 255 (OEM), assuming you are a modern day gamer.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon R9 255 (OEM)? A suitable upgrade choice for the Radeon R9 255 (OEM) is the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB, which is 385% more powerful and can run 616 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 8. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 70% better and can meet 0 of their recommended requirements.

FPS System Benchmark

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon R9 255 (OEM) was released on 21 Dec 2013

AMD PC game performance check Radeon R9 255 (OEM)

GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 Cape Verde PRX

Process

28nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

30 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

15 GPixel/s

Shader Processing Units

Ray Tracing

Tensor Cores

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11.2

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.3

Resolution (WxH)

4096 x 2160

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

2048MB

Memory Speed

1625MHz

Memory Bus

128bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

104GB/sec

L2 Cache

512

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

930 MHz

Power

Max Power

None

PSU

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i5-4430 3.0GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1600 x 900

GPU Upgrade

GD Official

GD RATING

Approved

Radeon R9 255 (OEM) Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon R9 255 (OEM) is an OEM only Graphics Card based on the Graphics Core Next architecture. It offers the Cape Verde PRX GPU.
The Cape Verde PRX GPU is a second revision of the Cape Verde PRO GPU used on famous Radeon HD 7750. It offers the same core configuration (512:32:16, SPs, TMUs, ROPs) and the same bus width interface - 128-bits, but the central unit is clocked at 930MHz (instead of 800MHz) and the operating memory clock runs at 1625MHz, instead of 1125MHz. Thus, the card offers superior shader performance and extra memory bandwidth. The PRX variant also offers DirectX 11.2 Support but not AMD's TrueAudio Technology due to not being a GCN 2.0 Core.
Due to the increased clock frequencies, the rated TDP board, despite not being known yet, should be higher than Radeon HD 7750 and close to Radeon HD 7770.
Its gaming performance is also not known yet. We will update this area once benchmarks become available.

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