NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 204W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +240%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

1024

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

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2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

204W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GT200B

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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