NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (204W vs 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
0.708 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+214%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 200
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
1536
80
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
274W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
Tahiti
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
