NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (197W vs 204W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+84%
0.708 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2008
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1242 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
159.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
30
128
Shading Units
240
64
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.74 GPixel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
384.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
708.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
88.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
197W
TDP
204W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GT200B
G92-450-A2
GPU Variant
G200-350-B3
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
