AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Boost Clock902MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 +1%

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GK110

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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