NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition sales 15 January 2009. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla 2.0 architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 2.48 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 159.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 204 Watt.
We have no data on GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | |
| GPU code name | GT200B | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 15 January 2009 (15 years old) | |
| Current price | $170 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 240 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 648 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 204 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 51.84 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 708.5 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2484 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 159.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.3 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition is Radeon R7 M265DX.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition according to our statistics.
