Radeon R9 285 and GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon R9 285
GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Tonga
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
April 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1058 MHz
Core clock speed
918 MHz
1006 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,290 gflops
3,250 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
195 Watt
Texture fill rate
102.8
135.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
192.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1.126