AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +513%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

1792

Shading Units

216

112

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GT200

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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