NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)
1424 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+453%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
1664
80
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
148W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
GM204
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
