AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 550X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 204W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +76%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

240

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT200B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

204W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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