NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

1424 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 204W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +453%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

240

104

TMUs

80

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT200B

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

204W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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