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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)
Lower TDP (204W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition +13%
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
0.622 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

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-
-
-
-
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1242 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s

Render Config

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-
-
30
SM Count
30
240
Shading Units
240
80
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-

Theoretical Performance

20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
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708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

204W
TDP
236W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI 1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI 1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B
GPU Name
GT200
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
G200-300-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
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