AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (170W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +24%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

2.634 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1344

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GK104

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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