AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +600%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1792

Shading Units

128

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

141W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

Tonga

GPU Name

G92B

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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