GeForce GTX 285 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 285 Advantages
Lower TDP (204W vs 300W)
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)
1808 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285
708
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
+507%
4301
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 200
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
Board Design
204W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
Tahiti
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2
(215-0821065)
(215-0821065)
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
