NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (204W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

2320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +584%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Nov 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

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

40

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

51.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

708.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

88.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

204W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Hawaii

G200-350-B3

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

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

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