AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +1030%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 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

1100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2048

Shading Units

112

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

G92B

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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