AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (190W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB +26%

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 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

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GK110B

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GK110-301-B1

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

190W

TDP

250W

450 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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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