AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 555 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 91.87GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +383%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 555 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2011

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

957 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

91.87GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

288

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.832 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.33 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

70.66 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GF114

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GF114-200-KB-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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