NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 28.80GB/s)
AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
272 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (55W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
0.708 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250
+1%
0.717 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 200
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
512
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
716.8 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
55W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
Cape Verde
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
