NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
80 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (159W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+60%
0.708 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
204W
TDP
159W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
R600
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
