NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 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 153.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (204W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
1360 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
0.708 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+284%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 200
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
1600
80
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
228W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
Cypress
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
