AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 204W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +364%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/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

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

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

Tonga

GPU Name

GT200B

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

470 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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