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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V8800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)
Lower TDP (204W vs 208W)
ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
1360 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
0.708 TFLOPS
FirePro V8800 +272%
2.64 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2009
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 200
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units
20
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
1600
80
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

204W
TDP
208W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI 1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B
GPU Name
Cypress
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
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