GeForce GTX 285 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking732not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.15no data
Power efficiency0.81no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameR700GT200B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 August 2008 (16 years ago)17 June 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$550 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800240
Core clock speed700 MHz648 MHz
Number of transistors956 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)286 Watt315 Watt
Texture fill rate28.0051.84
Floating-point processing power1.12 TFLOPS0.7085 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4080

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm275 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1152 MHz
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/s147.5 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 August 2008 17 June 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 286 Watt 315 Watt

ATI HD 4870 X2 has 10.1% lower power consumption.

GTX 285 X2, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4870 X2 and GeForce GTX 285 X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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