NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 204W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition +48%

0.708 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

512bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

30

192

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

204W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GT200B

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

576 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

1.3

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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