NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI 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
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 204W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
204W
TDP
27W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
RV516
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
