NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs 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 1024GB)
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
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
1625 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
896
80
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
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 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
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
