NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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
Lower TDP (204W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)
2576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
0.708 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
+709%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 200
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
2816
80
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
Vesuvius
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
438 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
