AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 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)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +368%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1792

Shading Units

240

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

204W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200B

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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