AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 204W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +28%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

0.708 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

512bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

384

Shading Units

240

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

204W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT200B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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