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GeForce GTX 285 2GB vs Radeon HD 5870

Intro

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB comes with a clock frequency of 648 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1242 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 240 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5870, which features a clock speed of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1200 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 1600(320x5) SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5870 188 Watts
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 204 Watts
Difference: 16 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 285 2GB, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 5870 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 2GB 158976 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5870 153600 MB/sec
Difference: 5376 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5870 is a lot (about 31%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 285 2GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 68000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 51840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16160 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5870 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 27200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 2GB 20736 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6464 (31%)

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 HD 5870
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 15, 2009 September 23, 2009
Code Name G200b Cypress XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 648 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 2484 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 204 watts 188 watts
Bandwidth 158976 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 51840 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20736 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 1600(320x5)
Texture Mapping Units 80 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 512-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1400 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 285 2GB

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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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