AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2005

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

NV41

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

3.0

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