AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +665%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

216

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GT200B

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

171W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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