AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 204W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +178%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285

0.708 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce GTX 285

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

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

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1242 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

240

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GT200B

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

204W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-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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