AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +202%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1792

Shading Units

448

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GT215

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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