AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

2576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (204W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +709%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Dec 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

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

240

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GT200B

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

204W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 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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