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GeForce GTX 285 2GB vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB comes with core speeds of 648 MHz on the GPU, and 1242 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G 110 Watts
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 204 Watts
Difference: 94 Watts (85%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 4G should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 285 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G 179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 158976 MB/sec
Difference: 20224 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a small bit (more or less 20%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 285 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G 62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 51840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10560 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a lot (approximately 50%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 285 2GB, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G 31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 20736 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10464 (50%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 285 2GB Radeon R7 370 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 15, 2009 June 2015
Code Name G200b Trinidad
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 648 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 2484 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 204 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 158976 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 51840 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20736 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 1024
Texture Mapping Units 80 64
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 512-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1400 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 285 2GB

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Radeon R7 370 4G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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