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 1.24 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 159.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the 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 ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 648 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 204 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 51.84 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.7085 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 80 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & 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 |
VRAM capacity and type
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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1242 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 159.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
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 compatibility
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 M270DX.
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