AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +108%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GF110

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

3 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

244W

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 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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