AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 204W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +279%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

240

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

204W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GT200B

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

212 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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