NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 104.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 204W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +178%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R7 260X

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1242 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

159.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

240

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

51.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

708.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

88.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Bonaire

G200-350-B3

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

204W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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