NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI 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
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
144 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+163%
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 430 PCI
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
2
240
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
49W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
GF108
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
