AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

1200 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (151W vs 204W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +194%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

240

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GT200B

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

204W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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