NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+48%
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
448bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
24
240
Shading Units
192
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
28
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
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-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
182W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
GT200
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
576 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
