NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 204W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +368%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1242 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

159.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

51.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

708.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

88.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

204W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-350-B3

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

352 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

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