NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 54.40GB/s)
144 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Lower TDP (69W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+175%
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
12
240
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
204W
TDP
69W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
GT215
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
